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…
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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…
#11. Help Wanted: Biomanufacturing workers needed for COVID-19 vaccines
by Ellen Chappelka, William Lazonick, and Ken Jacobson At the beginning of May 2021, it was reported that millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID…
Toward a System of Balanced Capitalism – Can Japan Avoid the Dangers of “Financialization”?
“…What Went Wrong in the US: the Phenomenon of Financialization The above problems are all seen as associated with the ongoing trend toward large firm value extraction, as opposed to value creation. These terms were coined by William Lazonick, author…
#2. How effectively is global capacity being utilized? Is there any idle capacity to press into service?
by Öner Tulum, William Lazonick, and Ken Jacobson Despite vaccines’ significant public-health benefits, sales of all vaccines accounted for less than four percent of $872 billion in prescription-drug…
Shredding Paper
The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry by Michael Hillard “From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production,…
Ellen Chappelka
Ellen Chappelka is a Master of Public Health Student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Health Policy and Management. Her occupational background includes time as an EMT at New Orleans EMS and as a health systems…