I was asked by Paul Solman, the PBS National Economics Correspondent, to write down in non-technical terms the basic argument for the labor theory of property, i.e., the ordinary juridical responsibility principle applied to property rights and liabilities. This is the “justice in production” argument in a nutshell. You can go directly to the PBS Making Sen$e site, or
Click here to download a PDF of the blog entry.Quite interesting that Paul Solman would make this request of David Ellerman, especially when PBS is going over the cliff in other respects.
This is short.
David Ellerman
PBS Making Sen$e blog: The case for employee-owned companies
David Ellerman | University of California, San Diego, Political Science, Fellow, Center on Global Justice, University of California, Riverside, Philosophy, Visiting Scholar
