Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future, but Problems Run Deeper than Tweets

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