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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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
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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
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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:
ineteconomics.org/perspectiv…
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🚨 BREAKING: The European Parliament has voted to adopt the directive on adequate minimum wages and stronger collective bargaining
This victory for the trade union movement couldn't come at a more important moment - Europe needs a pay rise!
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OECD #corpgov consultation oecd.org/daf/ca/publiccommen… big big thks to @Frank_Bold @purposeofcorp @Lazonick @GRI_Secretariat @ihrb