In this insightful INET blog piece, Lynn Parramore interviews AIRnet President William Lazonick about Tesla’s role in shaping America’s future. Drawing on Lazonick and Matt Hopkins’ INET-funded working paper, “Tesla as a Global Competitor: Strategic Control in the EV Transition,” the discussion delves deeper than Musk’s controversial tweets, exploring how Tesla’s corporate compensation and financialization practices impact its strategic control and long-term competitiveness.
Read the full blog post: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/elon-musk-and-tesla-shape-americas-future-but-problems-run-deeper-than-tweets
Access the related working paper: https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/tesla-as-a-global-competitor-strategic-control-in-the-ev-transition
Also, check out the blog article by Lazonick and Hopkins that builds on the working paper: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/musk-and-tesla-corporate-compensation-financialization-and-problem-of-strategic-control
