By William Lazonick Lack of stable and remunerative employment opportunity results in socioeconomic precarity. A nation can mitigate socioeconomic precarity when the investment triad of household units, government agencies, and business corporations develop and utilize its productive capabilities. Within the…
Edited Volumes
China as an Innovation Nation
By Yu Zhou, Yifei Sun and William Lazonick (Editors) This volume assesses China’s transition to innovation-nation status in terms of social conditions, industry characteristics and economic impacts over the past three decades, also providing insights into future developments. Defining innovation as the…
Corporate Governance, Employee Voice, and Work Organization
By Inge Lippert, Tony Huzzard, Ulrich Jurgens, & William Lazonick (Editors) Corporate Governance, Employee Voice, and Work Organization explores the dynamic relations between corporate governance, employee voice, and the organization of work in the automotive supply industry. It reports on research…
The Third Globalization
By Dan Breznitz and John Zysman (Editors) Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations–the US, Western European countries, Japan–can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern…
