Economic Democracy Book Prize Accepting Nominations

Nominations for the 2026 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize are open until September 15. Awarded by the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University, the prize is open to books published between 2022 and 2025, and authors are welcome to self-nominate.

The type of books sought by the award committee is elaborated on the nomination page:

The award is intended to honor a book (or edited volume) that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of economic democracy. That advancement could be to our theoretical understanding, to research, or to the real-world development of employee share ownership, workers’ cooperative ownership, profit sharing, or any newly emergent form of workers’ ownership and/or democratic governance in the economic sphere. The book must have appeared in print by an independent publisher either as a hard cover or paperback or both in these years. Books that have only appeared digitally are not eligible. Note that a book will only be considered if an approved PDF of the book is submitted as part of the nomination process. 

The award, which in 2023 was awarded to John Case and NCEO founder Corey Rosen for Ownership: Reinventing Capitalism, Companies, and Who Owns What, comes with a cash prize as well as a request that the recipient record a presentation about their book at a future Institute event.

The nomination page describes the award in more detail, plus how to nominate a book.