170 Results for “William Lazonick”
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What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
Feb 1, 2024
White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors?
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Elites Have Made the American Dream a Nightmare for Black People. Who’s Next?
Jul 9, 2020
Researchers reveal the enemies to stability and prosperity that threaten us all.
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Why Wages Are Stagnating in Latin America
Oct 19, 2018
William Lazonick has shown how the doctrine of “shareholder value” has hurt wages in the United States. But in Latin America, where family corporations dominate, the story is more complicated.
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How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future
Dec 8, 2014
Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to generate technological innovations — to put bold ideas to work and then bring them to market.
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Meet the "New Koch Brothers" – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Mar 4, 2021
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology
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America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics
Dec 20, 2024
The country’s flawed insurance model, driven by greed, leads to inefficiency, inequality, and denied care - a colossal scam that has sparked fury across the nation.
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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
Oct 5, 2017
The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense
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The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism
Aug 3, 2018
How corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends
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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money
Oct 19, 2014
An Open Letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
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Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.
Sep 19, 2024
The financialization of U.S. firms making critical products endangers both American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.
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Venezuela: The Hidden Workforce Behind Oil, AI, and a Fragile Nation
Jan 6, 2026
Venezuela is caught between economic collapse, foreign intervention, and the invisible machinery of the global economy.
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ConferenceTowards A Gini Negative Solution
Feb 27–28, 2020
What will empower a worker to be able to make greater demands on a profitable economy or employer? The answer may be summed up in one word: leverage.
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Latest Institute Grants Announced
Jul 17, 2015
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has awarded $2 million in grants to fund 21 different projects as part of the latest round of its research grant program.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?
Apr 16, 2020
Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D