145 Results for “William Lazonick”
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Article
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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Webinars and Events
Labor, Technology and Growth
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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Article
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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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.
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Article
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
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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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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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Welcome to the Emergency Room. A Wall Street Honcho Will Decide Your Treatment.
Oct 12, 2021
Doctors and medical experts say private equity firms and profiteering corporations are putting American lives at risk and compromising the practice of medicine.
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Article
Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
Jan 31, 2020
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
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INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously
Dec 29, 2016
Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric
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European Ruling Highlights Apple's Corrupted Business Model
Aug 31, 2016
There is much for U.S. authorities to learn from the European example of forcing corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, but more far-reaching oversight of executives’ allocation of resources is also required
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Beyond Price Caps: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation
Feb 3, 2022
US regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development
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If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous
Dec 22, 2016
Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it
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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
There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Jul 16, 2020
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
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How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 15, 2020
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
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YSI Event
Trento Festival of Economics
YSI Europe Convening 2017
YSI
WorkshopJun 1–4, 2017
The Young Scholars Initiative and its working groups will be hosting meetings and discussions in and around the 2017 Trento Festival of Economics.
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Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty
Oct 16, 2014
Apple should be returning profits to workers who have invested their time and effort into generating its products and to taxpayers who have funded the investments in the physical infrastructure and human knowledge so critical to Apple’s success.
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Think Big Pharma Won’t Profiteer in the Race to Treat Coronavirus? Think Again.
May 5, 2020
Evidence shows pharmaceutical companies won’t stop price-gouging and risking American lives for financial gain in this time of crises – unless we force them.
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INET Research in a Stressful Year
Feb 23, 2018
In the face of laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.
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How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation
Jul 31, 2017
The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators
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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
Jul 24, 2020
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect
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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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Article
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
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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off
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The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Aug 21, 2023
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
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Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
Mar 29, 2021
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy. Antitrust expert Mark Glick explains how the U.S. went astray during the 1980s, and how to get back on track.
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Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs
Oct 6, 2023
Post-Chicago Economists vs. New Brandeisians on the New Merger Guidelines
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General Equilibrium Theory: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?
Aug 16, 2016
Does general equilibrium theory sufficiently enhance our understanding of the economic process to make the entire exercise worthwhile, if we consider that other forms of thinking may have been ‘crowded out’ as a result of its being the ‘dominant discourse’? What, in the end, have we really learned from it?
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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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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Podcasts
How the Study of Meaning-Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis
Feb 4, 2021
Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.