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‘Shareholder value’ versus the public good: the case of Germany by TheAIRNet researchers, Emre Gömec and Mustafa Erdem S...
07/11/2020

‘Shareholder value’ versus the public good: the case of Germany by TheAIRNet researchers, Emre Gömec and Mustafa Erdem Sakinc on

Support for companies amid the pandemic must come with social and ecological strings attached.

Institute for New Economic Thinking paper by TheAIRNet president William Lazonick and TheAIRNet researchers Philip Moss,...
06/21/2020

Institute for New Economic Thinking paper by TheAIRNet president William Lazonick and TheAIRNet researchers Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz

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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06/21/2019

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Innovation by Britain’s firms will be a key determinant of national success in an increasingly competitive global environment for high-value industries. As Britain considers how to develop an industrial strategy ‘fit for the future’, however, the decline in long-term productivity in the UK con...

William Lazonick, the President of TheAIRNet on
06/20/2019

William Lazonick, the President of TheAIRNet on

William Lazonick’s long-standing skepticism toward the shareholder-value model has become a central element of the economic platforms of several Democratic Presidential candidates.

William Lazonick, president of TheAIRNet, and Öner Tulum, senior researcher of TheAIRNet, wrote for
03/07/2019

William Lazonick, president of TheAIRNet, and Öner Tulum, senior researcher of TheAIRNet, wrote for

Pharmaceutical companies say their profits fund research and innovation in new medicines, but they are spending billions to enrich shareholders and executives.

Mustafa Erdem Sakinc, senior researcher of TheAIRNet and professor of Economics, Paris 13 University, and Patricia Kotni...
09/05/2018

Mustafa Erdem Sakinc, senior researcher of TheAIRNet and professor of Economics, Paris 13 University, and Patricia Kotnik, professor of Economics, University of Ljubljana, wrote for on executive pay in Europe.

In Europe and the United States, stock-based compensation discourages long-term corporate sustainability

Between 2007 and 2016, companies in the S&P 500 spent 54% of their profits on buybacks - more than double the share in t...
09/05/2018

Between 2007 and 2016, companies in the S&P 500 spent 54% of their profits on buybacks - more than double the share in the 1980s, according to analysis by William Lazonick, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell

The US market rally has stock indexes at or near record highs. Are there clouds on the horizon?

William Lazonick, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network. Ken Jacobson, communications director of TheAIRNe...
09/05/2018

William Lazonick, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network. Ken Jacobson, communications director of TheAIRNet, wrote for The New York Times

Big companies have squandered $4 trillion since 2007 buying their own stock. It’s time to rein them in.

Interview with Noam Chomsky on rising Authoritarianism. He is citing the president of TheAIRNet, William Lazonick, in hi...
07/26/2018

Interview with Noam Chomsky on rising Authoritarianism. He is citing the president of TheAIRNet, William Lazonick, in his interview...

Countering authoritarianism will take carefully honed education, organizing and activism, Chomsky says.

An article by Professor William Lazonick that won the HBR McKinsey Award for the best article of the 2014, Harvard Busin...
07/09/2018

An article by Professor William Lazonick that won the HBR McKinsey Award for the best article of the 2014, Harvard Business Review called buyback “in effect, stock price manipulation.” Share buybacks represent a cancer on capitalism...

Share Buybacks Are A Cancer On Capitalism

In fact, according to the Academic-Industry Research Network (TheAIRNet), 94 percent of corporate profits in the last de...
06/17/2018

In fact, according to the Academic-Industry Research Network (TheAIRNet), 94 percent of corporate profits in the last decade have been devoted to buybacks and dividends...

By Keith Townsend Special to the Salisbury Post After being informed that at least 4,600 Americans may have died in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, it might be of interest to know that both of our congressional representatives, Ted Budd and Richard Hudson, joined 67 of their fellow Repub...

According to an analysis compiled by Lazonick and Emre Gomeç of the Academic-Industry Research Network, and Rick Wartzma...
06/17/2018

According to an analysis compiled by Lazonick and Emre Gomeç of the Academic-Industry Research Network, and Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, corporate America has committed 30 times more in resources over the last decade to repurchasing stock than it has to investing in its workforces,

Trump's tax cuts have triggered a wave of corporate stock buybacks that may steady stock markets but have done little to raise wages or create jobs.

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