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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...
via EETimes I by Alan Patterson I December 7, 2021
With CHIPS Act, US Risks Building a White Elephant

With CHIPS Act, US Risks Building a Whit...

..."Several U.S. tech companies now lobbying for the CHIPS Act have squandered past support from the U.S. government while instead ...
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via RetailDive I by Ben Unglesbee I November 15, 2021
Stock buybacks are back, baby

Stock buybacks are back, baby

..."William Lazonick, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network and a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, said ...
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via CNBC I by Eric Rosenbaum I October 8, 2021
What a tax on stock buybacks would and wouldn’t mean for the bull market

What a tax on stock buybacks would and w...

...And then there’s Apple, with the biggest share repurchase program of all, and a customer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, ...
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# 12. Who controls the supply of COVID-1...

by Öner Tulum, William Lazonick, Ken Jacobson, and Ellen Chappelka                       ...
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#11. Help Wanted: Biomanufacturing work...

by Ellen Chappelka, William Lazonick, and Ken Jacobson                          ...
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via Handelsbatt I by Ulf Sommer I June 15, 2021
$500 billion: US corporations increase share buybacks to new record

$500 billion: US corporations increase s...

In 2021, companies will spend more on buying their own shares than ever before. That drives stock prices – but lets ...
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