How about Richard D. Wolff, an economics professor with a relatively socialist area of study? He has lots of material not just from his point of view but many

How about Richard D. Wolff, an economics professor with a relatively socialist area of study? He has lots of material not just from his point of view but many guest interviews from many walks of life. Hosting his weekly 30-minute "current events" program, Economic Update, where all kinds of episodes are posted online, besides his lectures and books over the decades. Here's a video lecture touching on worker coops and related theories that ended up being posted in a subreddit that is not specifically concerned with economics, socialism, nor coops: Richard D. Wolff Lecture on Worker Coops; Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism: https://www.reddit.com/r/lectures/comments/8ypnl3/richard_d_wolff_lecture_on_worker_coops_theory/ https://www.reddit.com/r/lectures/comments/8ypnl3/richard_d_... Turns out there's been only one "parent" comment but it does say quite a bit in a much shorter time than it takes to listen to the entire lecture: >POGO_POGO_POGO_POGO • 6y ago • Edited 6y ago "Two problems I see with worker cooperatives: If a capitalist enterprise were to be converted to a worker-owner enterprise, the workers would need to buy their "exploitation" up front (as that would be incorporated in the company price). This is a catch-22: they can either not buy the company and get exploited throughout their working life, or they can buy the present value of their exploitation up-front. This is much like telling a slave that they can buy their freedom, but the cost of their freedom is a full-life's worth of labour. (Obviously workers aren't "exploited" to the degree of a slave, but hopefully you get the picture.) Instead of converting a capitalist enterprise to a worker cooperative, the enterprise could be a worker cooperative from the start - a worker cooperative start-up. The problem I see here is how many start-ups actually succeed? Not many. This means that the risk of funding start-ups is huge, and a huge risk needs a huge payoff when successful. E.g. suppose you are in the business of funding start-ups. If only one in ten start-ups succeed, then that one successful startup needs to return a lot to compensate for the other failed nine. The easiest way to achieve this return is simply if the party funding the start-up takes part-ownership. But that's against the principles of a worker-owned enterprise! So it's hard to convert to a worker cooperative, and hard to start a worker cooperative. I don't see worker cooperatives taking off without some sort of government incentives (or "coersion" as libertarians would like to put it)." I can't say I fully agree with Wolff or his detractors, but there's opinions I wouldn't want to be without when it comes to understanding a fuller economic picture,