WLazonick
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Bill Lazonick is an economist who researches and writes on the social foundations of innovative enterprise and is a critic of the financialized corporation.
Joined December 2011
A free download of the pdf of my book, Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the US Corporation is available until September 9: .
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Cambridge Core - Governance - Investing in Innovation
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RT @demystifysci: so stoked for our next releases. @AndrewBCollins about how the Tas Tepeler civilization gave birth to the serpent myth th….
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RT @rgmcgrath: Why is nobody talking about the fact that #USSteel authorized hundreds of millions in stock buybacks even as their executive….
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United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) today announced that its Board of Directors approved significant enhancements to its capital alloca...
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INET just posted the Tulum-Lazonick paper, "Setting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices":. It is summarized in our article, “What is ‘Fair' Drug Price?”:
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Medicare Needs a Perspective on “Collective and Cumulative Learning” in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations
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New working paper, Hopkins and Lazonick, "Tesla as a Global Competitor": and our article on how Elon Musk secures strategic control at Tesla:
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From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control? | Institute for New Economic Thinking #inet.
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The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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RT @rgmcgrath: You know that sneaking feeling that something is way out of whack in our economy? Pop in to this replay of my fascinating co….
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RT @RalphNader: See the latest from Matt Hopkins, William Lazonick.How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition | Institute for N….
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Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition.
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Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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Journalist Asks GM CEO Mary Barra About $29 Million Paycheck After UAW Strike | Carscoops
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On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago
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What the UAW and Everyone Else Needs to Know About CEO Pay | Institute for New Economic Thinking #inet.
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What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)
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Pleased to see @rgmcgrath: Creating value or extracting it? An existential question. Download the pdf of my book, Investing in Innovation:
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Cambridge Core - Governance - Investing in Innovation
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RT @INETeconomics: "The main instrument of predatory value extraction is the open-market repurchase of the corporation’s own outstanding sh….
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Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
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"How to end the stock buyback deluge" Harold Meyerson's last regular Washington Post column: Repeal Rule 10b-18.
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A Securities and Exchange rule is effectively shielding firms from charges of stock-price manipulation.
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My piece on HBR Blog Network: US Corporations Don't Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits - response to Icahn NYT oped
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The money will just end up in shareholders’ pockets.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin questions SEC on its regulatory failure, given the negative economic impacts of stock buybacks: http://t.co/q1lOXPaOCB.
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