143 Results for “William Lazonick”
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Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
Feb 9, 2021
Capacity, Scale, and Control
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4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 23, 2020
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
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What we learn about inequality from Carl Icahn’s $2 billion Apple “no brainer”
Jun 6, 2016
The company’s focus on stock buybacks to increase shareholder value is a reminder of why so much of the value created daily by millions of workers ends up in the hands of the billionaires
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6 Economic Experts Reveal the Truth About the Inflation Reduction Act
Aug 30, 2022
Is it good for your wallet? A climate bill in disguise? Landmark action or nothingburger? Economic experts assess the Democrats’ legislative victory for the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
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Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
Oct 4, 2021
To strengthen the American semiconductor industry, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks
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Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy. We Should Ban Them.
Feb 27, 2018
Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks.
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Is Wall Street Doing its Job?
May 20, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Jan 5, 2021
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
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Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American Carnage”
Jun 20, 2017
Current proposals will worsen inequality and harm those Trump promised to protect—while further enriching the top 1%
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CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Apr 6, 2020
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
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What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
Oct 2, 2023
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)
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Apple’s “Capital Return Program”: Where Are the Patient Capitalists?
Nov 13, 2018
Instead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks
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What the Steve Jobs Movie Won’t Tell You About Apple’s Success
Oct 23, 2015
Public funding behind the technology is the secret ingredient.
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Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization
Feb 28, 2023
Cisco’s turn from innovation to financialization and what it means for the competitive position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
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How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization