143 Results for “William Lazonick”
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YSI Event
Piecing Together a Paradigm
YSI Plenary
YSI
ConferenceOct 19–22, 2016
New approaches are being developed, but efforts are fragmented and need to be brought together if we hope to piece together a paradigm.
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Article
Could fiscal policy changes revive US economic growth? Some contributions towards answering that question
May 19, 2016
Renewed interest by policymakers in the challenges of long-term slow economic growth highlights the importance of the Institute’s research
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Article
Neither Clinton nor Trump is engaging with the causes of America’s economic woes
May 17, 2016
Author Rana Foroohar explains why the economic policies being touted by both presidential frontrunners offer none of the new thinking necessary to drive a policy response to revitalize the economy
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Article
We Stopped Pfizer’s Tax Dodge, Now Let’s End the Buybacks
Apr 8, 2016
Industrial journalist Ken Jacobson and economist William Lazonick (both of the Academic-Industry Research Network), call for an end to stock market manipulation through buybacks.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperThe Financialization of the US Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained
Jun 2012
Background paper for a presentation to the Seattle University School of Law Berle IV Symposiun, “The Future of Financial/Securities Markets,” London June 14-15, 2012.
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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits
Dec 21, 2015
Many Americans have expressed outrage over Pfizer’s plan, through its merger with Allergan, to move its tax home from the United States to Ireland. Now, in a New York Times op-ed, Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. He labels the Pfizer-Allergan deal a “travesty,” blaming the U.S.’s “uncompetitive international tax system.”
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Article
Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model
Dec 3, 2015
Why are we paying for corporate behavior that crushes innovation, cheats taxpayers, cost jobs, and heightens inequality?
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Video
How Government Helps, and Wall Street Hurts, the Innovative Enterprise
Aug 21, 2011
Innovation drives economic growth and welfare, and the industrial corporation drives innovation, says William Lazonick. But just how do corporations innovate?
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Article
Externalities and Public Goods: Theory OR Society?
Nov 19, 2015
How much does the standard theory of externalities and public goods really say?
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Video
The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
Jan 22, 2014
Lazonick discusses how we evolved from a society in which corporate interests were largely aligned with those of broader public purpose into a state where crony capitalism, accounting fraud, and corporate predation are predominant characteristics.
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Innovative Enterprise and the Developmental State: Toward an Economics of “Organizational Success”
Apr 2011
Investment in productive capabilities provides the foundation for economic growth.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesInnovative Enterprise or Sweatshop Economics? In Search of Foundations of Economic Analysis
Oct 2015
By integrating the history of industrial development in Britain and the United States with the ideas of leading economic thinkers, this essay demonstrates the absurdity of perfect competition as the ideal of economic efficiency.
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Article
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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Working Paper
Conference paperProfits Without Prosperity: How Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market, and Leave Most Americans Worse Off
Apr 2014
Five years after the end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the apparent prosperity.
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Article
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.