The Economist Who Put Stock Buybacks in Washington’s Crosshairs

By Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker

June 20, 2019

“In 1984, an economics professor named William Lazonick joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School, just in time to witness a shift in economic thought. Lazonick, who is seventy-four, had grown up in Toronto and earned a Ph.D. in economics, at Harvard, in 1975.”…