Antitrust Regulators Probe Private Equity Board Seats
Today is a short post on something I covered here last week - interlocking directorates.
Interlocking directorates (overlapping board seats)
Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 2
In the first post of this series (Part 1), we discussed the following questions: Should companies be allowed to '
[Recap] – Celebrating 1 year of Embodied Economics!
One year ago, I launched this newsletter with excitement and some trepidation. There are so many brilliant writers and thinkers
Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 1
Should companies be allowed to 'collude' to reach net zero targets or other green economy goals? Are sustainability
When Markets Fail
As Oscar Wilde once said, “The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Today, decades of
Proxy wars on corporate ‘wokeness’ are actually about something else...
Concentrated private power and the decline of democratic agency are at the root of these proxy wars. But there'
Stakeholder Capitalism's Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?
Today, I'm highlighting the just released paper — “Stakeholder Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?” — that I co-authored
Paradigms Create Worlds — A New Foundation for Economics
This week, I discuss a new paper co-authored by Dennis J. Snower, an economist,
and David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary
The Downsides of Democratizing Access
Access isn't all it's cracked up to be. The narrative of "democratizing access"
is
What Economists can Learn from Starlings
What can starlings, consciousness, and mimetic desire teach economists?
Happy New Year!
This week, while driving over gritty downtown Seattle