Louis O. Kelso
Louis Orth Kelso (April 12, 1913 – February 17, 1991) was a political economist in the classical tradition of Smith, Marx and Keynes. He was also a corporate and financial lawyer, author, lecturer and merchant banker who is chiefly remembered today as the inventor and pioneer of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), invented to enable working people without savings to buy stock in their employer company and pay for it out of its future dividend yield.
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| Birth date | April 12, 1913 |
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| Date of death | February 17, 1991 |
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