Would it be neat if the current UIT corporations sold shares to players?

I'd guess that you would create one global and finite supply of the commodity (the stocks) and then as players buy and sell it, the price will change. In addition, it should split whenever the number of unowned stocks goes below some preset point.

Hard to memorize and design but it's completly doable.
Besides, all natons having stocks would provide a very good income and there could also be other stocks like the "Cap Ship clean-up" stock which makes income on all of the stuff killed within a certain distance of a cap ship.

Sounds tricky and complicated but it IS smart and doable.

~Cpt. Overkill~