Comments on economic issues and developments published by AIR researchers and affiliates
How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
By Lynn Parramore "The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense In a new INET paper featured in ...
How hedge fund activists prey on companies
By Jang-Sup Shin "The casual observer can hardly comprehend the value-extracting power of hedge fund activists. Technically, they are no ...
How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay
Pharmaceutical companies say their profits fund research and innovation in new medicines, but they are spending billions to enrich shareholders ...
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How High Drug Prices Inflate C.E.O.s’ Pay
Drug company executives faced tough questions from Congress on Tuesday as they attempted to explain why, thanks to high drug prices, per ...
How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
By Lynn Parramore "Over the last several decades, American business executives have made decisions that have exacerbated the inequality that ...
How parasite corporations like Pfizer are chucking U.S. citizenship to escape from taxes
By Lynn Stuart Parramore "Let’s say you’re a giant American corporation like Pfizer, founded in Brooklyn way back in 1849 ...
How Stock Buybacks Undermine Sustainable Prosperity
The debate over buybacks is a debate over how to create more broadly shared prosperity. Here’s why their defenders’ arguments ...
How superstar companies like Apple are killing America’s high-tech future (interview of William Lazonick)
By Lynn Parramore "Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to put ideas to work ...
If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous
By William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins "On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on ...
In search of the great American job
By Bob Abeshouse "Jobs - or jobs and the economy - is at the top of every poll that asks ...
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