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…
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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…
Innovation in Real Places
Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of the information age, we’ve been told that economic growth derives from harnessing technological innovation. To do this, places must create good education systems, partner with local research universities, and attract innovative hi-tech firms. We have lived with this system for decades, and the result is clear: a small number of regions and cities at the top of the high-tech industry but many more fighting a losing battle to retain economic dynamism.
The KPFA Evening News (interview with William Lazonick)
Interview of the president of TheAIRNet, William Lazonick, in KPFA evening news [Click HERE to listen the interview] via KPFA l by KPFA Evening News l October 10, 2020