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Gregory Dow

Gregory Keith Dow is an economist at Simon Fraser University 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"

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Gregory Keith Dow (born February 2, 1954)1 is an economist at Simon Fraser University2 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).45 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 773 libraries.6

His 2018 book,7 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 imperfections8 along with a number of organizational weaknesses that LMFs (labor-managed firms) face that capital-managed firms (KMFs) do not8 prevent the spread of LMFs through the real economy.

Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Dow, Gregory K. Governing the Firm Workers' Control in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780511061394 6
  • (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 97808020970269
  • (coauthor), Dow, Gregory K. and Reed, Clyde G. Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World. 2023.10
References

References

  1. LC authorities file
  2. "Greg Dow - Home".
  3. WorldCat thesis record
  4. Garino, Gaia (2004-11-01). "Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice". The Economic Journal. 114 (499): F555–F556. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00258_11.x. ISSN 0013-0133.
  5. lasairdhubh (2014-05-27). "Review: Governing the Firm". The Socialist Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  6. WorldCat item record
  7. "Gregory Dow on his new book "The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations"". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  8. Dow, Gregory K. (2018). The labor-managed firm : theoretical foundations. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 76, 355–365. ISBN 9781108524223. OCLC 1032810203.
  9. WorldCat item record
  10. Bowles, Samuel; Bogaard, Amy (September 2024). "Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review of Economic Prehistory by Dow and Reed". Journal of Economic Literature. 62 (3): 1213–1229. doi:10.1257/jel.20221713. ISSN 0022-0515.