President of theAIRnet, William Lazonick, has been interviewed as part of the series “30 Ways to Be an Economist“. The 30 people interviewed in this series are those, such as Lazonick, who received inaugural grants from the Institute for New Economic Thinking in 2010. In the video of the interview at the bottom of this page, Lazonick talks about his research on the evolution of the US business corporation, emphasizing the damaging impacts on innovation, equity, stability, and growth of the shift from a productive to a financial orientation of its top executives over the past three decades.