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
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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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NVIDIA’s $150-Billion Protection Payoff: How much looting of the corporate treasury will Jensen Huang do to protect his job?
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Just out on INET (buybacks for nothing, board seats for free):
The U.S. battery maker that could, and the U.S. auto company that wouldn’t | Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Matt Hopkins and I have just published our article on Elon Musk's "pay" package: Elon Musk’s latest power grab: Will Tesla’s CEO become the world’s first trillion-dollar employee?
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so stoked for our next releases
@AndrewBCollins about how the Tas Tepeler civilization gave birth to the serpent myth that carries through to modern day
@Lazonick with a breakneck tour of the fallout from forty years unregulated corporate raiding. Live for patrons now 🫳👇
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Why is nobody talking about the fact that #USSteel authorized hundreds of millions in stock buybacks even as their executives said they needed investment from #nipponsteel to upgrade their obsolescent plant and equipment? businesswire.com/news/home/2… @Lazonick
INET just posted the Tulum-Lazonick paper, "Setting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices":
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It is summarized in our article, “What is ‘Fair' Drug Price?”: ineteconomics.org/perspectiv…
New working paper, Hopkins and Lazonick, "Tesla as a Global Competitor": ineteconomics.org/research/r…; and our article on how Elon Musk secures strategic control at Tesla: ineteconomics.org/perspectiv…
Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control? | Institute for New Economic Thinking ineteconomics.org/perspectiv… #inet
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3 days to The Penrose Lectures by @Lazonick at @SOAS - register free via soas.ac.uk/about/event/penro…
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You know that sneaking feeling that something is way out of whack in our economy? Pop in to this replay of my fascinating conversation with @Lazonick to unpack some of the reasons linkedin.com/events/71425380…
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See the latest from Matt Hopkins, William Lazonick
How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition | Institute for New Economic Thinking ineteconomics.org/perspectiv… #inet
How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
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Journalist Asks GM CEO Mary Barra About $29 Million Paycheck After UAW Strike | Carscoops carscoops.com/2023/09/gm-ceo…
What the UAW and Everyone Else Needs to Know About CEO Pay | Institute for New Economic Thinking ineteconomics.org/perspectiv… #inet
Pleased to see @rgmcgrath: Creating value or extracting it? An existential question. thoughtsparks.substack.com/p….
Download the pdf of my book, Investing in Innovation: cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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"The main instrument of predatory value extraction is the open-market repurchase of the corporation’s own outstanding shares—aka stock buybacks—the overwhelming purpose of which is to manipulate the corporation’s stock price," argues @Lazonick:
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Bill Lazonick on The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class [interviewed by INET's Rob Johnson] youtu.be/zhbQNBZDXD8?si=hhSB… via @YouTube
