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…

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…

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…