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Tariffs, tech & trouble with value. 🤔 @theAIRnet's @Lazonick reveals how the US economy prioritizes extraction over creation. What does it really take to build a secure, people-first economy? Find out here! #WebSummitVancouver 2025 youtube.com/live/e--KHIawf0s… via @YouTube
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NEW: @Lazonick (@UMass, @theAIRnet) writes that recent US industrial policy initiatives miss the centrality of corporate resource allocation for creating a robust economy, characterized by innovation in critical technologies and, through stable and equitable employment, an upwardly mobile middle class.
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Private equity CEO heading to US Treasury? 🤔 @Lazonick raises concerns in @allisondmorrow's @cnn piece: "regulation isn't there... [y]ou don’t even know what private equity owns —everything shielded by various types of transactions & corporate structures"
cnn.com/2024/11/22/business/…
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New episode of Better Offline: William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
@edzitron @Lazonick
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Recorded live at @WebSummit Lisbon 2024, @edzitron joined by @theAIRnet president @Lazonick to talk about how the incentives of shareholder capitalism and stock buybacks are destroying innovation.
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"Apple: The biggest corporate looter of all" youtu.be/Us1dLlqek80?si=qiyZ… @Lazonick gives a talk at @WebSummit Lisbon 2024 during a session moderated by @kncukier of @TheEconomist #WebSummit2024
AIRnet's @Lazonick joins the Better Offline podcast LIVE at @WebSummit 2024! Tune in as he discusses the tech industry's influence and the future it's building. Hosted by @edzitron. #WebSummit #TechEthics #Innovation websummit.com/sessions/lis24…
Why Silicon Valley is wrong about the economy? Join AIRnet President @Lazonick at @WebSummit 2024 for a critical discussion on innovation, investment, and the future of the economy. #WebSummit #SiliconValley #Innovation websummit.com/sessions/lis24…
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I’m @ The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice @uchicagossd enjoying a lecture by William @Lazonick Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts; Co-Founder and President of the Academic Industry Research Network = I ❤️ it
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"As much as Musk’s stock-option packages have made him wealthier, for him, stock options have never been primarily about compensation," argue Hopkins and Lazonick in a new analysis of the meaning and consequences behind Musk's stratospheric compensation:
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Latest @INETeconomics article by @theAIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and @Lazonick examines Elon Musk's $48B stock-option package and its impact on Tesla's EV transition. ineteconomics.org/perspectiv…
Boeing’s Safety Scandal Is an Object Lesson in the Dangers of Stock Buybacks commondreams.org/opinion/boe…
Join us on April 11-12, 2024 for the @BritishAcademy_
conference on "Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance," hosted by
@SOASsfm in partnership with @theAIRnet
Event registration: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
Join us on April 11-12, 2024 for the @BritishAcademy_ conference on "Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance," hosted by @SOASsfm in partnership with @theAIRnet
Event registration: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
Join us on April 11-12, 2024 for the @BritishAcademy_ conference on "Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance," hosted by @SOASsfm in partnership with @theAIRnet
Event registration: lnkd.in/dDndJpnB
Join us on April 11-12, 2024 for the @BritishAcademy_ conference on "Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity: Innovation, Capabilities and Governance," hosted by @SOASsfm in partnership with @theAIRnet
Event registration: lnkd.in/dDndJpnB
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Hoping to see some of you at @SOAS next week for the British Academy Conference on Resolving Vaccine Inequity! @barnes_weise will be speaking on “Vaccine Nationalism, Vaccine Inequity, Production and IPR." thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
#vaccineaccess #vaccineequity
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💡Closing remarks #INNOVPharmaAF
@MichelSidibe echoed the collective sentiment of the last 2-days as he called for a paradigm shift from a #pharmaceutical system that benefit the privileged few to a people centred approach that will ensure no one is left behind.
