In Michael M. Davis Lectures at U of Chicago's CHAS, Lazonick discusses the economic dynamics that lead to high healthcare costs and low-quality healthcare, examining the role of public corporations and private equity ​in this systemic problem. youtube.com/watch?v=-4Ta...

In "Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control," AIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick ask "Why should we be worried about Musk’s control of Tesla?" www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

"The Myth That Shareholders Are Always Investors: Challenging the Paradigm of Shareholder Primacy" by Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

This process of subtle stock-market regulatory changes leading to the death of useful innovation was laid out very well by William Lazonick in this recent episode of the Better Offline podcast from @zitron.bsky.social : bsky.app/profile/andr...

Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century

Private equity CEO heading to US Treasury? 🤔 William Lazonick raises concerns in Allison Morrow'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" www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/b...

Just spotted that the timeline chart I created, of pandemic death tolls over history, is the cover image of Wikipedia's page "List of epidemics and pandemics". Wow! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

AIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick ask, "Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?" www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

"Apple: The biggest corporate looter of all" youtu.be/Us1dLlqek80?si… William Lazonick gives a talk a#WebSummit202424 Lisbon during a session moderated by The Economist's Kenneth Cukier