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Resource type: Essays
Title: Wealth at Work: Employee Ownership and Responsible Accumulation
Author(s): Christopher Mackin
Date: 25 June 2004
File: PDF document Wealth at Work Employee Ownership and Responsible Accumulation.pdf
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Category: Employee Ownership

It might be inferred that the core problem that Robin Blackburn addresses in his 2003 paper The Great Pension Crisis: From Grey Capitalism to Responsible Accumulation is the familiar problem of concentrated wealth. Blackburn proposes to attack this problem
by introducing the general notion of “second pensions” that build upon core public pension schemes. The funding of second pensions we learn can be addressed through the introduction of a five part challenge to the status quo involving, most prominently, the idea of a share levy that will require all corporations to issue new shares to a public pension trust fund each year equivalent to 10 percent of their profits.

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