The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) is a non-profit, educational and research institution organized under § 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
Founded in 1984, CESJ studies, promotes, and develops programs incorporating a free enterprise approach to global economic justice through expanded capital ownership.
[citation needed] Many CESJ members and supporters do not agree that the terms “capitalist” and “capitalism” accurately describe the system Kelso and Adler framed.
An economically just economy is one in which every citizen can be a capital owner without taking property away from the currently wealthy (whom the system allowed to monopolize ownership of increasingly productive labor displacing-technologies).
[citation needed] In 1990, Norman G. Kurland, CESJ's president, headed the team that implemented the world's first ESOP (called a “Workers Shareholders Association” under a new Egyptian law) in a developing country for the Alexandria Tire Company using funds provided by USAID.
Writing to The Wall Street Journal, Melanie Tammen of the Competitive Enterprise Institute cited the Alexandria Tire Company as the sole worthy achievement in USAID's record of aid to Egypt.
Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen: A Just Free Market Solution for Saving Social Security (2004), a “policy manual for change,” was published under CESJ's “Economic Justice Media” imprint.