150 Results for “William Lazonick”

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.”

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.

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced that OSF has made a gift of $23.5 million to INET. The grant marks the completion of the organizations’ 12-year collaboration.

The Academic-Industry Research Network—theAIRnet—is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization devoted to the proposition that a sound understanding of the role of business in the economy requires collaboration between academic scholars and industry experts.

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.

With Pat Gelsinger at the helm, Intel’s fate will be decided by whether it can revive its innovation-driven legacy or remain a cautionary tale of financial mismanagement.

The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick

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?

Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government and economic conditions favored the rise of a Black blue-collar middle class from the 1960”s to the 1970’s, and how shifts in policy and in the economy caused its unmaking from the 1980’s onwards.

Economists honored for their work on contract theory, which has important implications for issues such as executive compensation that have been a focus of Institute research

New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.

China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States

Hedge fund managers are pushing American firms to play Wall Street games instead of investing in technologies of the future. China doesn’t have that problem.

Economics has a race problem.

We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights