How Hedge Fund Activists Prey on Companies
When corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends.
Shin Jang-Sup
Browsing: Business
Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and David Sloan Wilson
Evolutionary theory meets artificial intelligence and the management of algorithms.
Tim O'Reilly
The Tragedy of the Healthcare Data Commons
Once the system can discriminate on a multitude of data points, the commons collapses.
John Battelle
Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders
A conversation about the Business for Peace Award with Per Saxegaard.
Per L. Saxegaard
How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths
Most of us are not conscienceless psychopaths but when we make investing decisions we often act as if we are.
Lynn Stout
Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economic game is enormously fun for far too few players, and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Tim O'Reilly
Ralph Nader: How CEO Stock Buybacks Parasitize the Economy
Hyper enrichment of a handful of radical corporate state supremacists wasn’t what classical capitalism was supposed to be about.
Ralph Nader
How to Resolve Fights over Reclining Airplane Seats: Use Behavioral Economics
An investigation into the economics of reclining.
Christopher Buccafusco
Building the Public Goods of the Twenty-First Century
Digital public goods in the age of the data revolution
Nicholas Gruen
Como as Cooperativas Estão Direcionando a Nova Economia
Os locais de trabalho das cooperativas provavelmente não estão em sincronia com nossas raízes evolutivas e podem não ser boas para nosso sucesso a longo prazo
Eric Michael Johnson
How Low-Paying Jobs and Weak Safety Nets Reduce Innovation and Productivity
Given the structure of our social safety net, automation tends to increase poverty and inequality rather than unemployment
Ryan Avent
The Ideology of Exponential Growth Devours and Corrupts
There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth.
David Heinemeier Hansson
How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
Increasingly, businesses don’t generate profits. They generate capital gains. It’s fiendishly clever.
Steve Roth
Business School’s Worst Idea: Why the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Theory Is Bogus
Short-termism, underinvestment, and a preoccupation with image management.
Yves Smith
Why Central Banks Should Offer Bank Accounts to Everyone
Central banking disrupted for the 21st century
Nicholas Gruen
Why the Invisible Hand from Biology is Better Than the Invisible Hand from Economics
The notion that economics and business are all about competition and self-interest is alluring but wrong
Mark van Vugt
Memo to Jeff Bezos: Stack-Ranking is a Destructive Employee Practice
A survival of the fittest approach to hiring is a recipe for disaster.
Alistair Thorpe, Rick O’Gorman
What Keeps the Rich and Powerful up at Night, and Why They’re Happy You Don’t Care
The powerful are pleased we find interest rates boring
Tom Streithorst
Why Wall Street Isn’t Useful for the Real Economy
It’s time to challenge the idea that Wall Street trading helps allocate society’s resources more efficiently
Lynn Stout
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Human activities are driven by this process of altering human perceptions of reality
John Perkins
Why Groups Fail (Hint: For the Same Reasons that Nations Fail)
To solve the problem of abuse by power-hungry leaders, the first step must be the adoption of a worldview that makes it obvious.
David Sloan Wilson
We Can’t Wait for an Invisible Hand. It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of the Economy
To survive, the game of business needs to update its rules
Tim O'Reilly
If We Say That Nature Is Priceless, Do We End up in Effect Treating It as Valueless?
How to assign a value to different aspects of the natural world
Marcel Harmon
How Neoclassical Economics Corrupted Business Schools, Corporations, and the Economy
Homo economicus fosters a corporate culture that ignores business social responsibilities
Herbert Gintis, Rakesh Khurana
Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.
Why has business education failed business?
Rana Foroohar
Chimpanzees Prove That Elites Don’t Understand Darwin’s Message About Cooperation
The evolutionary roots of our social contract
Eric Michael Johnson
The Rise of Finance and The Fall of American Business
Companies don’t innovate when they can make more money from financialization
John Battelle
Why You Should Blame the Financial Crisis for Political Polarization and the Rise of Trump
How financial and banking crisis ruins our civility
Amir Sufi
Milton Friedman’s Idea of Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Wrong. Here’s How to Rethink the Corporation.
We won’t fix the problem until we address the nature of the corporation.
Susan Holmberg, Mark Schmitt
How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
The evolution, ecology, and nature of firms
David Sloan Wilson
