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Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor : An Assessment of Proposed Explanations

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Dow, G
Putterman, L

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Enterprises owned or run by workers are probably as old as capitalism itself, but they have never occfupied more than a small sector of any developed market economy. In this paper, we ask why this is so.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University in its series Discussion Papers with number dp97-03.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: MANAGEMENT; CAPITALISM;

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M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
P12 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Capitalist Enterprises

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