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Business firms are not alone in making investments in the productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services. Household units and government agencies also make investments in productive capabilities upon which business firms rely for their own investment activities.

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

US regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development

Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory

Swift reorganization or liquidation of insolvent businesses is the single best policy to deal with corporate debt booms.

How once-promising Black upward mobility reversed course, and what can be done about it

The study seeks to explain why the instruments of central banking inevitably break down over time.

Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019

The success of projects for pandemic preparedness and response depends on the strength of government-business collaborations.

To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed

In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.

This paper considers the relationship between profits realized from higher insulin list prices, pharmaceutical innovation, and the financial structures of the three dominant insulin manufacturing companies, which set list prices.

The links between campaign contributions from the financial sector and switches to a pro-bank vote were direct and substantial

Private equity firms have become major players in the healthcare industry. How has this happened and what are the results?

Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world