Gregory Dow

Gregory Keith Dow (born February 2, 1954)[1] is an economist at Simon Fraser University[2] 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).[4][5] 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 imperfections[8] along with a number of organizational weaknesses that LMFs (labor-managed firms) face that capital-managed firms (KMFs) do not[8] prevent the spread of LMFs through the real economy.

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 9780802097026[9]
  • (coauthor), Dow, Gregory K. and Reed, Clyde G. Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World. 2023.[10]

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. ^ a b WorldCat item record
  7. ^ "Gregory Dow on his new book "The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations"". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
  8. ^ a b 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.
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