150 Results for “William Lazonick”

The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.

Stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation

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?

Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale

White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors?

Young Scholars based in Latin America are invited to convene in Buenos Aires. The event serves to strengthen the Latin American network of new economic thinkers pursuing a new economic paradigm. Attendees will be able to enjoy several partner events during the same week.

Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to generate technological innovations — to put bold ideas to work and then bring them to market.

William Lazonick has shown how the doctrine of “shareholder value” has hurt wages in the United States. But in Latin America, where family corporations dominate, the story is more complicated.

Researchers reveal the enemies to stability and prosperity that threaten us all.

Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology

The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense

How corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends

An Open Letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

The financialization of U.S. firms making critical products endangers both American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.

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.