All Stories

  1. Why ‘fair market valuations’ are inappropirate for employee-owned firms and partnerships

    Article • International Review of Applied Economics, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  2. Rethinking member contributions in housing co-operatives

    Article • Journal of Co-operative Studies, October 2025, UK Society for Co-operative Studies

    David Ellerman

  3. The Mean and the Variance as Dual Concepts in a Fundamental Duality

    Article • Axioms, June 2025, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  4. Where Do Adjunctions Come From? Chimera Morphisms and Adjoint Functors in Category Theory

    Article • Foundations, March 2025, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  5. A New Logical Basis for Variance and Covariance

    Article • December 2024, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  6. Democratic ownership

    Article • December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  7. Worker cooperatives and other “cooperatives”

    Article • December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  8. Is “capitalism” a misnomer?: on Marx’s “capitalism” and Knight’s “civilization”

    Article • European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  9. A Fundamental Duality in the Exact Sciences: The Application to Quantum Mechanics

    Article • Foundations, May 2024, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  10. A New Approach to Understanding Quantum Mechanics: Illustrated Using a Pedagogical Model over ℤ2

    Article • AppliedMath, April 2024, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  11. A New Logic, a New Information Measure, and a New Information-Based Approach to Interpreting Quantum Mechanics

    Article • Entropy, February 2024, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  12. The Heteromorphic Approach to Adjunctions: Theory and History

    Article • Mathematics, January 2024, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  13. The Pedagogical Model of Quantum Mechanics over Sets

    Article • January 2024, Qeios Ltd

    David Ellerman

  14. Conclusions

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  15. Introduction: Partitions and Quantum Reality

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  16. Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  17. Partitions: The Logical Concept to Describe Indefiniteness and Definiteness

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  18. The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics: The Partition Analysis

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  19. The Yoga of Linearization

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  20. A New Logic, A New Information Measure, and A New Information-Based Approach to Interpreting Quantum Mechanics

    Article • December 2023, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  21. The Born Rule is a Feature of Superposition

    Article • Qeios, November 2023, Qeios Ltd

    David Ellerman

  22. The Heteromorphic Approach to Adjunctions: Theory and History

    Article • November 2023, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  23. The Born Rule is a Feature of Superposition

    Article • November 2023, Qeios Ltd

    David Ellerman

  24. The new partitional approach to (literally) interpreting quantum mechanics: Quantum reality is indefinite-world, not wave-world

    Article • October 2023, Qeios Ltd

    David Ellerman

  25. The new partitional approach to (literally) interpreting quantum mechanics

    Article • April 2023, Qeios Ltd

    David Ellerman

  26. Fallacies about Corporations: Comments on “Democratizing the Corporation”

    Article • Politics & Society, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  27. European Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP): the main structural features and pilot implementation in Slovenia

    Article • SN Business & Economics, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  28. TURNING PLATFORM WORKERS INTO OWNERS: ESOP-TYPE BUYOUTS OF LABOUR-BASED PLATFORMS

    Article • Teorija in praksa, November 2022, University of Ljubljana

    David Ellerman

  29. Quantum math = linearized partition math

    Article • Foundations of Physics, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  30. Bringing workers into ownership of platform companies

    Article • Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, August 2022, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  31. The logical notion of information and entropy compared to the Shannon notion of entropy

    Article • 4open, January 2022, EDP Sciences

    David Ellerman

  32. Less-known supporters of workplace democracy

    Article • Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, June 2021, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  33. The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm

    Article • April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  34. Abstraction = glass half-full; Superposition = glass half-empty

    Article • Journal of Philosophical Logic, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  35. Concluding Remarks About Jurisprudence and Neoclassical Economics

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  36. Contract: The Case Against the Human Rental Contract Based on Inalienability

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  37. Governance: The Case Against the Employment System Based on Democratic Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  38. Introduction

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  39. Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Property and Contract

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  40. Invalidity of Personhood Alienation Contracts

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  41. Jurisprudence and the Corporate Governance Debate

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  42. Marginal Productivity Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  43. Marxism as the Ultimate ‘Capitalist Tool’

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  44. Mathematical Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Property and Contract

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  45. Neo-Abolitionism

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  46. New Foundations for Information Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  47. Property: The Case Against the Human Rental System Based on Private Property Rights

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  48. Putting Jurisprudence Back Into Economics

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  49. Summary and Conclusions

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  50. The Arrow-Debreu Model

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  51. The Logical Fallacy in Cost-Benefit Analysis and Law & Economics

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  52. The Property Fallacy in Capital Theory and Corporate Finance Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  53. Conclusion

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  54. Further Developments of Logical Entropy

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  55. Logical Entropy

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  56. Marcora for Europe:

    Article • European State Aid Law Quarterly, January 2021, Lexxion Verlag

    David Ellerman

  57. Quantum Logical Information Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  58. The Compound Notions for Logical and Shannon Entropies

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  59. The Relationship Between Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  60. Alleged problems in democratic firms and actual problems in conventional firms

    Article • Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, August 2020, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  61. Coronavirus Crisis: Government Aid That Also Promotes Employee Ownership

    Article • Intereconomics, May 2020, De Gruyter

    David Ellerman

  62. Fallacies of Corporate Analysis

    Article • Challenge, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  63. Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  64. Corporations!

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  65. Probability Theory with Superposition Events: A Classical Generalization in the Direction of Quantum Mechanics

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  66. The Logical Theory of Canonical Maps: The Elements & Distinctions Analysis of the Morphisms, Duality, Canonicity, and Universal Constructions in Sets

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  67. James M. Buchanan and Democratic Classical Liberalism

    Article • August 2019, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  68. A graph-theoretic method to define any Boolean operation on partitions

    Article • The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics, June 2019, University of Primorska Press

    David Ellerman

  69. Logical Entropy: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Logical Information Theory

    Article • Entropy, September 2018, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  70. Logical Entropy: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Logical Information Theory

    Article • August 2018, MDPI AG

    David Ellerman

  71. Book review of Elizabeth Anderson's book; Private Government

    Article • Challenge, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  72. Introduction to Quantum Logical Information Theory: Talk

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2018, EDP Sciences

    David Ellerman

  73. A Theory of Inalienability: Towards A Theory of Classical Liberal Jurisprudence

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  74. New Light on the Objective Indefiniteness or Literal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  75. The quantum logic of direct-sumdecompositions: the dual to the quantum logic of subspaces

    Article • Logic Journal of IGPL, August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Ellerman

  76. Logical information theory: new logical foundations for information theory

    Article • Logic Journal of IGPL, August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Ellerman

  77. On the Labor Theory of Property: Is the Problem Distribution or Predistribution?

    Article • Challenge, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  78. A Basic Fallacy in Law & Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  79. Introduction to Quantum Logical Information Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  80. Rethinking Libertarianism: A Review/Essay on Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2017, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  81. Category theory and set theory as theories about complementary types of universals

    Article • Logic and Logical Philosophy, August 2016, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    David Ellerman

  82. Quantum mechanics over sets: a pedagogical model with non-commutative finite probability theory as its quantum probability calculus

    Article • Synthese, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  83. Four ways from universal to particular: how Chomsky’s principles-and-parameters model is not selectionist

    Article • Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  84. Rethinking Common Versus Private Property

    Article • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, March 2016, Wiley

    David Ellerman

  85. On Adjoint and Brain Functors

    Article • Axiomathes, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  86. The DNA of Enterprise: Jane Jacobs and Henry George on Innovation and Development Through Spin-Offs

    Article • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, May 2015, Wiley

    David Ellerman

  87. Why delayed choice experiments do Not imply retrocausality

    Article • Quantum Studies Mathematics and Foundations, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  88. Does classical liberalism imply democracy?

    Article • Ethics & Global Politics, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  89. On Double-Entry Bookkeeping: The Mathematical Treatment

    Article • Accounting Education, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  90. On Property Theory

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  91. On a fallacy in the Kaldor–Hicks efficiency–equity analysis

    Article • Constitutional Political Economy, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  92. Parallel experimentation: a basic scheme for dynamic efficiency

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  93. On Concrete Universals: A Modern Treatment Using Category Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  94. On Double-Entry Bookkeeping: The Mathematical Treatment

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  95. Three Themes About Democratic Enterprises: Capital Structure, Education, and Spin-Offs

    Article • December 2013, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  96. An introduction to partition logic

    Article • Logic Journal of IGPL, September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Ellerman

  97. AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGICAL ENTROPY AND ITS RELATION TO SHANNON ENTROPY

    Article • International Journal of Semantic Computing, June 2013, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    David Ellerman

  98. On the Renting of Persons

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  99. Three Themes About Democratic Enterprises: Capital Structure, Education, and Spin-Offs

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  100. Comment on Ramon Flecha and Ignacio Santa Cruz. The Priority of Labor and Capital Accounts

    Article • Analyse & Kritik, May 2011, De Gruyter

    David Ellerman

  101. Marxism as a capitalist tool

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, December 2010, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  102. Inalienable Rights: A Litmus Test for Liberal Theories of Justice

    Article • Law and Philosophy, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  103. THE LOGIC OF PARTITIONS: INTRODUCTION TO THE DUAL OF THE LOGIC OF SUBSETS

    Article • The Review of Symbolic Logic, February 2010, Cambridge University Press

    David Ellerman

  104. Workplace Democracy and Human Development:

    Article • The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    David Ellerman

  105. Workplace Democracy and Human Development: The Example of the Postsocialist Transition Debate

    Article • The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    David Ellerman

  106. Marxism as a Capitalist Tool

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  107. The Logic of Partitions: Introduction to the Dual of the Logic of Subsets

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  108. Double-Entry Accounting: The Mathematical Formulation and Generalization

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  109. Numeraire Illusion: The Final Demise of the Kaldor-Hicks Principle

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  110. Counting distinctions: on the conceptual foundations of Shannon’s information theory

    Article • Synthese, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  111. Helping self-help: The fundamental conundrum of development assistance

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, August 2007, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  112. Book review

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, June 2007, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  113. Adjoints and emergence: applications of a new theory of adjoint functors

    Article • Axiomathes, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  114. On the Role of Capital in “Capitalist” and in Labor-Managed Firms

    Article • Review of Radical Political Economics, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  115. Translatio versus Concessio

    Article • Politics & Society, September 2005, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  116. Labour migration: A developmental path or a low-level trap?

    Article • Development in Practice, August 2005, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  117. The two institutional logics: exit-oriented versus commitment-oriented institutional designs

    Article • International Economic Journal, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  118. How Do We Grow? : Jane Jacobs on Diversification and Specialization

    Article • Challenge, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  119. Jane Jacobs on development

    Article • Oxford Development Studies, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  120. Autonomy-Respecting Assistance: Toward An Alternative Theory of Development Assistance

    Article • Review of Social Economy, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  121. Markets do more than just transfer property rights.

    Article • Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, January 2004, De Gruyter

    David Ellerman

  122. Parallel Experimentation: A Basic Scheme for Dynamic Efficiency

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2004, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  123. The Role of Capital in 'Capitalist' and in Labor-Managed Firms

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2004, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  124. Corporate governance, capital theory, and corporate finance theory: An approach from property theory

    Article • Corporate Ownership and Control, January 2004, Virtus Interpress

    David Ellerman

  125. Policy Research on Migration and Development

    Article • August 2003, World Bank

    David Ellerman

  126. On the Russian Privatization Debate

    Article • Challenge, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  127. Should development agencies have Official Views?

    Article • Development in Practice, August 2002, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  128. Lessons from Eastern Europe's Voucher Privatization

    Article • Challenge, July 2001, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  129. Active learning and development assistance

    Article • Journal of Knowledge Management, June 2001, Emerald

    David Ellerman

  130. The Indirect Approach

    Article • August 2000, World Bank

    David Ellerman

  131. Responsibility and Workplace Democracy

    Article • Peace Review, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  132. The Arrow-Debreu model: How math can hide a fatal conceptual error

    Article • Forum for Social Economics, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  133. Global institutions: Transforming international development agencies into learning organizations

    Article • Academy of Management Perspectives, February 1999, The Academy of Management

    David Ellerman

  134. Article • Journal of Business Ethics, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  135. Privatization in Post-Socialist Economies

    Article • Human Systems Management, January 1993, IOS Press

    David Ellerman

  136. Myth and Metaphor in Orthodox Economics

    Article • Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, July 1991, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  137. CROSS OWNERSHIP OF CORPORATIONS: A NEW APPLICATION OF INPUT-OUTPUT THEORY

    Article • Metroeconomica, February 1991, Wiley

    David Ellerman

  138. AN ARBITRAGE INTERPRETATION OF CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION

    Article • Metroeconomica, October 1990, Wiley

    David Ellerman

  139. PERESTROIKA WITH WORKER OWNERSHIP

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, October 1990, Wiley

    David Ellerman

  140. Report on a Socialist Reform Tour: Poland, Hungary, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, May 1990, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  141. The Corporation as a Democratic Social Institution

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  142. The Kantian Person/Thing Principle in Political Economy

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, December 1988, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  143. The Legitimate Opposition at Work: The Union's Role in Large Democratic Firms

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, November 1988, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  144. Category theory and concrete universals

    Article • Erkenntnis, May 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman

  145. The Employment Contract and Liberal Thought

    Article • Review of Social Economy, April 1986, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  146. Horizon problems and property rights in labor-managed firms

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, March 1986, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  147. Intentionality and information theory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 1986, Cambridge University Press

    David Ellerman

  148. Doing double-entry bookkeeping without prices or costs

    Article • Omega, January 1986, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  149. This is a mathematical formulation of double-entry bookkeeping.

    Article • Mathematics Magazine, September 1985, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  150. Entrepreneurship in the Mondragon Cooperatives

    Article • Review of Social Economy, December 1984, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  151. Theory of Legal Structure: Worker Cooperatives

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, September 1984, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  152. Arbitrage Theory: A Mathematical Introduction

    Article • SIAM Review, April 1984, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    David Ellerman

  153. A Model structure for cooperatives: Worker co-ops and Housing Co-ops

    Article • Review of Social Economy, April 1983, Taylor & Francis

    David Ellerman

  154. Property theory and orthodox economics

    Article • November 1980, Cambridge University Press

    David Ellerman

  155. The "OWNERSHlp of tHe Firm" Is a Myth

    Article • Administration & Society, May 1975, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  156. Sheaves of structures and generalized ultraproducts

    Article • Annals of Mathematical Logic, December 1974, Elsevier

    David Ellerman

  157. Introduction To Normative Property Theory

    Article • Review of Radical Political Economics, June 1972, SAGE Publications

    David Ellerman

  158. Whither Self-Management? Finding New Paths to Workplace Democracy

    Article • Emerald

    David Ellerman

  159. Property Appropriation and Economic Theory

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    David Ellerman