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What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay

What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay

What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? AIRnet researchers...
William Lazonick joins Ralph Nader Radio Hour to discuss about “License to Loot”

William Lazonick joins Ralph Nader Radio Hour to discuss about “License to Loot”

On June 3, 2023, William Lazonick was Ralph Nader's guest...
Tea Petrin, July 9, 1944-April 4, 2023.

Tea Petrin, July 9, 1944-April 4, 2023.

With profound sadness, I am informing the AIRnet community of...
Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization

Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization

by Marie Carpenter and William Lazonick Once the global leader...
Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic

Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic

by William Lazonick and Öner Tulum On August 16, 2022,...
From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma

From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma

AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline by Öner Tulum, Antonio Andreoni and William...
International workshop series on the German system of co-determination organized by WZB, theAIRnet, and IGZA

International workshop series on the German system of co-determination organized by WZB, theAIRnet, and IGZA

Together with the Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für...
Boeing’s Deadly Design | American Greed

Boeing’s Deadly Design | American Greed

William Lazonick interview on “Boeing’s Deadly Design,” an episode of...
Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

Hedge fund managers are pushing American firms to play Wall...
INET-AIR COVID VACCINE PROJECT

INET-AIR COVID VACCINE PROJECT

Mass-Producing COVID-19 Vaccines: Capacity, Scale, and Control In collaboration with...
Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal

Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal

"...Economist Matt Hopkins, who studies business corporations, stresses that as...
Cooperation Networks and Economic Development

Cooperation Networks and Economic Development

Cuba’s High-Tech Potential By Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill "For most Western...
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout

4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William...
The myth of the ‘efficient’ private sector has been busted by Covid

The myth of the ‘efficient’ private sector has been busted by Covid

"Last Friday, as towns and cities across the UK faced...
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic

4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic

"It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come...
The Economist Who Put Stock Buybacks in Washington’s Crosshairs

The Economist Who Put Stock Buybacks in Washington’s Crosshairs

In 1984, an economics professor named William Lazonick joined the...
Predatory Value Extraction

Predatory Value Extraction

In this book William Lazonick and Jang-Sup Shin explain how...
How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay

How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay

Drug company executives faced tough questions from Congress on Tuesday as they...
2014 HBR McKinsey Award, First Place : “Profits Without Prosperity”

2014 HBR McKinsey Award, First Place : “Profits Without Prosperity”

The HBR McKinsey Awards, judged by an independent panel of...
Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation

Investing in Innovation: Confronting Pre...

ABSTRACT  “Sustainable prosperity” denotes an economy that generates stable and equitable growth for a large and growing middle class. From ...
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via IGZA I October 2021 & February 2021
International workshop series on the German system of co-determination organized by WZB, theAIRnet, and IGZA

International workshop series on the Ger...

Together with the Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung-WZB), the Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet), and the Institute for ...
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via Jacobin I by Julia Rock and David Sirota I March 3, 2022
Intel Wants Public Money to Make Rich Shareholders Richer

Intel Wants Public Money to Make Rich Sh...

“[The companies lobbying on this] say they need the subsidies to give them an incentive to invest,” said William Lazonick, ...
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via CNBC I January 26, 2022
Boeing’s Deadly Design | American Greed

Boeing’s Deadly Design | American Greed

William Lazonick interview on “Boeing’s Deadly Design,” an episode of American Greed aired by CNBC on January 26, 2022. [Click ...
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via NYT I by Jack Nicas I January 3, 2022
Apple becomes the first company to hit $3 trillion market value

Apple becomes the first company to hit $...

...Apple, for instance, has spent billions of dollars buying its own stock while also using low-wage workers to assemble its ...
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via Barron's I by Lenore Palladino and Nick Lusiani I December 21, 2021
A major transparency in share buybacks

A major transparency in share buybacks

...After a brief pandemic respite, share buybacks are back with a vengeance. In the third quarter of 2021, S&P 500 ...
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