1:02Owning shares does not settle market power
A share of profits and influence over dominant firms are separate questions.
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Ownership in practice.
Compare financial stakes, voting power, access to capital and the boundaries of cooperative membership.
Who can become an owner, and what power and protection come with it?
- STEP 1 OF 5
Distinguish a stake from influence
Jan Eeckhout separates owning shares from changing market power.
1:02 - STEP 2 OF 5
Examine the decision rights
Juho Makkonen describes the separate choices involved in protecting purpose and extending democratic control.
1:43Purpose protection and democracy are different decisions
Sharetribe’s founders retained voting control before a later democratic transition.
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Open access to ownership
Jens Lowitzsch explains a renewable-energy model designed to include people without existing savings.
0:51Ownership beyond existing savings
Jens Lowitzsch explains how a renewable-energy ownership model uses trusteeship and future returns to include people without existing savings.
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Follow the consequences for work
MONDRAGON describes how training, transfers and supported retirement feature in its response to automation.
0:42Adopt the technology. Look after the people.
MONDRAGON’s Ander Etxeberria Otadui describes training, transfers and supported retirement as responses to automation.
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Test the limits
The discussion of overseas subsidiaries shows why it matters to ask where cooperative membership and its protections stop.
2:57Where cooperative ownership stops
Overseas subsidiaries expose the limits and conditions of a shared-ownership model.
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