145 Results for “William Lazonick”
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News
OSF and INET Complete 12 Year Collaboration on New Economic Thinking
Jan 5, 2022
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.
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Partnership
The AirNet
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.
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Article
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Dec 29, 2020
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
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Article
America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
Aug 12, 2024
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.
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Article
After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.
Jul 1, 2019
The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick
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Working Paper
Working paperEquality Denied: Tech and African Americans
Feb 2022
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?
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Podcasts
The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 1
Jul 1, 2021
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.
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Article
Congratulations to Economics Nobel Laureates Hart and Holmström
Oct 10, 2016
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
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Article
How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
Sep 11, 2023
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
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Article
China’s Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
Aug 22, 2022
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
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Article
Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Apr 7, 2021
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.
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Webinars and Events
Tomorrow’s Detroits & Detroit’s Tomorrows
ConferenceRace & Economics
Nov 11–12, 2016
Economics has a race problem.
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Article
Don't “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Feb 20, 2019
We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights
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Article
How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare
May 24, 2021
The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.
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Article
How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication
Jul 7, 2021
Stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation