Gregory Dow

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Gregory Keith Dow (born February 2, 1954)^[1] is an economist at Simon Fraser University^[2] who has contributed to the economics of participation and particularly to research on worker cooperatives. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1981 with a thesis "Investment under uncertainty : the capital market and the behavior of the firm" ^[3]

He is the author of the 2003 book Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2003). According to WorldCat, the book is held in 773 libraries.^[4]

His most recent book, The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations attempts to build a theoretical foundation in order to explain the overwhelming preeminence of capital-managed firms viz. labor-managed firms in the real economy. His main conclusions include the fact that market imperfections^[5] along with a number of organizational weaknesses that LMFs (labor-managed firms) face that capital-managed firms (KMFs) do not^[5] prevent the spread of LMFs through the real economy.

Bibliography[edit]

• Dow, Gregory K. Governing the Firm Workers' Control in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780511061394 ^[4]
• (coeditor) Dow, Gregory K., Andrew Eckert, and Douglas Scott West. Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction: Essays in Honour of B. Curtis Eaton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. ISBN 9780802097026^[6]

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