Hélène Lesterlin focuses on regenerative finance, community-building, and helping Just Transition-aligned entrepreneurs and activists find pathways to resources for their work. She currently serves as co-Executive Director at the Good Work Institute, launching Kingston Common Futures, a community-designed democratically-managed fund….
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The British Academy Conference on “Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance” co-organized by SOAS and AIRNET
On April 11-12, 2024, SOAS University of London and the Academic-Industry Research Network, co-hosted the British Academy Conference on “Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance” to gather biomedical and social scientists, public health practitioners, and policy makers to…
The Real Book About the “White Working Class”
In a Racket News interview with Matt Taibbi, Les Leopold, Executive Director of the Labor Institute and an associate of the Academic-Industry Research Network, discusses his latest book, Wall Street’s War on Workers.
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Lynn Parramore explains how physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunked the arguments of “industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations”. Click HERE to read the article at www.ineteconomics.org.
What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? AIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick explains it’s more than you are being told! “In striking General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has put the spotlight…
Investing in Innovation
Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation by William Lazonick Business corporations interact with household units and government agencies to make investments in productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services. When they work harmoniously, these three types…
Tea Petrin, July 9, 1944-April 4, 2023.
With profound sadness, I am informing the AIRnet community of the passing on April 4, 2023, of Tea Petrin, a dedicated board member of the Academic-Industry Research Network since its founding in 2010. A professor at the University of Ljubljana…
Susan Holmberg
Susan Holmberg is a political economist and the Senior Editor and Researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She shapes the strategic direction of the Independent Business initiative’s research and manages the publication quality for all team content. She writes…
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 Sozialforschung-WZB), the Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet), and the Institute for the History and Future of Work (Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit-IGZA) organized the German-American workshop series “The…
Intel Wants Public Money to Make Rich Shareholders Richer
“[The companies lobbying on this] say they need the subsidies to give them an incentive to invest,” said William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts, who coauthored the study on semiconductor industry buybacks. “Well, the companies that…
