Stock buybacks: How Wall Street has created “profits without prosperity

By Cory Doctorow

“For years, the Harvard Business School fellow William Lazonick has been writing about the rise of the “shareholder value” doctrine in capital markets, and how that has driven financial engineering tactics like stock buybacks, which allow shareholders (including top executives) to prosper at the expense of the companies they have invested in, siphoning value out of profitable businesses until they collapse.”

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