A wage-earners' investment fund would receive income from taxation use it to accumulate capital on behalf of wage-earners. The paper briefly surveys the various wage-earner fund proposals advanced in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. It then analyses the arguments for and against wage-earner...

The paper briefly summarizes those arguments which explain the paucity of workers' cooperatives under capitalism in terms of their financing arrangements. The possibility is considered that a wage-earners' investment fund, of Scandinavian type, could act as an external funding agency for a...

This paper sets the contributions to this issue in the context of a large and rapidly growing literature. It argues, on theoretical and empirical grounds, that future research should focus on transitional growth dynamics. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003.