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Our Economy is Fractured

Decision-making power and financial gains have accrued to too few, compounding and entrenching unhealthy market concentration and economic inequality. Meanwhile, workers, communities, consumers, and regions remain undervalued and with little influence.

A clear majority of people worldwide across generations and social classes globally agree that: “The main divide in our society is between ordinary citizens and the political and economic elite.”

Source: Ipsos

What is Predistribution?

Coined by Jacob Hacker, predistribution involves reforming economic systems through which wealth is created to more adequately value workers, communities, consumers, and nature, thereby resulting in a fairer distribution of risk and return across all stakeholders in society.

What We Do

Economic Analysis

Analyzing the economic “distributional” impacts of investment activity

Financial Analysis + Accounting Tools

Reforming financial analysis and accounting tools (incentives) to better value people and nature, thereby reconnecting financial value with real world value

Predistributive Structures + Approaches

Advancing predistributive market and investment structures, including broadening equity-linked compensation and corporate governance participation

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Recent Publications

Boards of Requisite Variety: The Cybernetic Case for Broadening Governance Participation

It’s not easy to neatly summarise what corporate governance is ‘for’ but if you asked many people who work in and around the field the word ‘accountability’ would feature prominently. In particular, when talking about the Anglo-American model, this typically means accountability to shareholders.

The Governance Gap: Why Worker Voice Fails Without Structure

Workforce representation on company boards is established in Europe, yet remains rare in the UK and US. Recent progress has stalled, revealing the fragility of arrangements relying on leadership commitment rather than institutional anchoring.

Investing to Reconnect Financial Value with People, Nature and the Real Economy

An iterative blueprint for capital market actors, policymakers, and regulators to explore how capital markets can play a transformative role in building a regenerative and inclusive economy by realigning financial value with real-world value.

Reforming capital markets to build broad-based prosperity and reduce economic inequality