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Are Large Institutional Investors Actually Effective in Getting Companies to Reduce Their CO2 Emissions?

Large institutional investors have been accused of not doing enough to reduce CO2 emissions. However, a new study finds that firms like BlackRock, Vanguard,...

President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...

It is Not Just Small Investors Who Will Be Silenced Thanks to SEC’s New Rules

Shareholder proposals are one of the most effective forms of shareholder voice in corporate America. It is one of the main channels...

Beyond Friedman’s Doctrine: The True Purpose of the Business Corporation

The pandemic and the renewed focus on inequality and injustice arising in the wake of the death of George Floyd have accelerated...

Market Forces Already Address ESG Issues and the Issues Raised by Stakeholder Capitalism

When do market forces push firms toward stakeholder goals, rather than just shareholder goals? When do market forces push firms toward ESG...

Missing in Today’s Shareholder Value Maximization Credo: The Shareholders

Today’s corporate world is very different from the one Milton Friedman wrote in. In a world where the question of whether managers...

Serving Shareholders Doesn’t Mean Putting Profit Above All Else

The time has come for companies, economists, and society to abandon the argument that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. Editor’s note:...

Friedman’s Principle, 50 Years Later

In the mid-1980s, Milton Friedman’s view that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits became dominant in business...

Please, Don’t Use Taxpayer Money to Bail Out Investors Like Me

When we invested in stocks and bonds, we knew we might have to face a storm or two. The high returns we received on...

Economics, Law and Finance Professors from Major Universities Write to Congress : “Bail Out People Before Large Corporations”

"Bailouts allow investors to keep all the profits in good times without bearing the losses in bad times. Instead, bailouts impose losses on taxpayers, including those...

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How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment

James Traina, Ivan Kirov

A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers...

Economic History Series

How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence

Jennifer Delton

What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The...

Antitrust and Competition

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

Adam Levitin

Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy...

Antitrust and Competition

The Dawn of Antitrust and the Egalitarian Roots of the Sherman Act

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While it isn’t particularly controversial that concentrated economic power was a legislative target of the Sherman Act, when read as a corollary...

Economic History Series

The Varied Ideologies—and Practices—of Socialist Nations in the Developing World

Jeremy Friedman

In an excerpt from his new book Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, Harvard Business School professor Jeremy Friedman...

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LATEST NEWS

How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment

How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

The Dawn of Antitrust and the Egalitarian Roots of the Sherman Act

The Varied Ideologies—and Practices—of Socialist Nations in the Developing World

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