The Robert Oakeshott Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Joseph R Blasi, a J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor and Director Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
Moreover, he's a visiting Fellow for Kellogg College, Oxford University, and a Fellow of The Aspen Institute.
Joseph is also the author of The Citizen's Share and is a former advisor to the U.S. Department of Treasure on employee share ownership.
He’ll argue that by utilising different levels of EO, it’s possible to organise the majority of an economy with employee ownership at its epicentre.
The lecture will examine and explore research showcasing how this shift can take place with a detailed discussion of what public policy needs to do to accomplish a broad-based EO economy in the near future.
“It’s been a long-held belief that employee ownership provides a means to share ownership among an entire group of employees and offer an alternative succession option to outgoing owner-founders,” said Joseph.
“Now, however, research has made this absolutely clear alongside undeniable evidence that employee ownership can be quickly implemented, not only in small and medium-sized businesses, but also in listed corporations, to address wealth insecurity and inequality.”