143 Results for “William Lazonick”
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Webinars and Events
Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity
ConferenceInnovation, Capabilities and Governance
Apr 11–12, 2024
The development of COVID-19 vaccines within a year of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 was an unprecedented triumph of scientific research that saved millions of lives. In contrast, the lack of global coordination to manage intellectual property, technology transfer, production, financing, and distribution of vaccines led to excess deaths and losses in economic output.
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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
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation—They Don't Use the Money to Innovate!
Mar 14, 2024
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
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News
Business Insider quotes and cites Lazonick’s INET-funded research on Boeing’s stock buybacks.
Feb 12, 2024
Business Insider quotes and cites William Lazonick’s INET-funded research on Boeing’s stock buybacks. Cross-posted in MSN, Yahoo Finance, Business News, AOL, News Break, Star News, and Web Today.
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Article
What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
Feb 1, 2024
White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors?
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Article
How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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Article
Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs
Oct 6, 2023
Post-Chicago Economists vs. New Brandeisians on the New Merger Guidelines
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Article
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
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
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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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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Working Paper
Working PaperThe Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization
Feb 2023
On the dereliction of key US-based business corporations to take the lead in making the investments in organizational learning required to generate cutting-edge communication-infrastructure products.
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Article
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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Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic
Dec 6, 2022
Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
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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.