Following hot on the heels of the 60 Minutes episode this past weekend, employee ownership was the focal point of a recent episode of the popular podcast Freakonomics. Titled "Should Companies Be Owned By Their Workers?," the episode puts host Stephen J. Dubner in conversation with NCEO founder Corey Rosen as well as KKR's Pete Stavros and the Democracy Collaborative's Marjorie Kelly.
The conversation features a wide range of topics, including private equity's increasing interest in employee ownership, the history and power of employee ownership and ESOPs in the US, and how to scale ownership across the economy. The episode can be heard for free wherever you get your podcasts, and a full transcript is available here.