by Öner Tulum, William Lazonick, and Ken Jacobson The success of the worldwide COVID-vaccine rollout depends on decisions regarding the utilization of available production capacity made both independently…
Author: Oner Tulum
#1. Is there enough production capacity available for the vaccine supply to meet urgent demand in 2021?
by Öner Tulum, William Lazonick, and Ken Jacobson As COVID-19 vaccines receive regulatory approval, the world has a powerful weapon to fight the coronavirus. But at what pace…
INET-AIR COVID VACCINE PROJECT
Mass-Producing COVID-19 Vaccines: Capacity, Scale, and Control In collaboration with the Institute for New Economics Thinking (INET), the AIR research team has embarked on a new research project (INET-AIR COVID VACCINE PROJECT) to study and report on the rollout of…
Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
“…Economist Matt Hopkins, who studies business corporations, stresses that as a taxpayer, you are asked to support such companies not only in the form of direct subsidies, but also indirectly through government-supported research. Not to mention all sorts of tax…
Michael Hillard
Michael Hillard has taught and written about the history of US corporate governance, and especially the pernicious effects of financialization since the 1980s on the US paper industry and as a driver of labor market forces that have debased the quality of employment and undermined efforts to create organizational capacity in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Ulrike Schaede
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is also the Director of JFIT (the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology), where she organizes a weekly “Japan Zoominar”…
Cooperation Networks and Economic Development
Cuba’s High-Tech Potential By Andrés Cárdenas O´Farrill “For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo – anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high…
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
‘Sick’: Most Profitable US Companies Fired Workers, Enriched Shareholders During Pandemic
“…An in-depth investigation published Wednesday by the Washington Post illuminates how “big businesses are having a very different year from most of the country,” which is suffering as a result of the federal government’s negligent response to the ongoing public health catastrophe and inadequate provision of financial assistance…
America’s biggest companies are flourishing during the pandemic and putting thousands of people out of work
“…Companies often buy their own stock during difficult economic periods to signal to the market that management still believes in their prospects. But those buybacks also mean companies are taking money that could have been invested into employees and innovation…