Business & Industry
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Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control
Sep 13, 2024
From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.
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Working Paper
Tesla as a Global Competitor: Strategic Control in the EV Transition
Sep 2024
As the “Technoking” of Tesla strategizes to maintain his control over the company’s decision-making, anyone concerned with the role that Tesla will play in the evolving EV transition should be asking how CEO Musk might use, or abuse, his powerful position.
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The “Fortune 500” of 1812
Aug 27, 2024
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country and possibly more than all other countries combined.
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Working Paper
Scale and Scope in Early American Business History: The “Fortune 500” of 1812
Aug 2024
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country, and possibly more than all other countries put together, securing its role as the world’s first “corporation nation.”
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Forget the Posturing – The Inflation Reduction Act May Work Better Than Many Expected
Aug 16, 2024
The IRA has the potential to rectify the imbalance between public benefit and private incentives
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America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
Aug 12, 2024
With Pat Gelsinger at the helm, Intel’s fate will be decided by whether it can revive its innovation-driven legacy or remain a cautionary tale of financial mismanagement.
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CrowdStrike Lessons: Liability Shields Fuel Risky Practices, Expert Warns
Jul 30, 2024
Cybersecurity expert Muayyad Al-Chalabi assesses CrowdStrike’s update failure and its broader implications for cybersecurity in a discussion with Lynn Parramore.
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Why Global Supply Chains Remain Vulnerable
Jul 2, 2024
Journalist Peter Goodman delves into the persistent problems with supply chains and how to fix them his new book, “How the World Ran Out of Everything,” in conversation with the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues
Jun 10, 2024
An ensemble of mechanisms enables cloud hegemons (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) to plan the whole AI knowledge and innovation network by weaponizing interdependence in networks.
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Turin Festival of Economics 2024
ConferenceMay 30–Jun 2, 2024
Who owns knowledge?
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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Apr 19, 2024
The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.
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How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs
Oct 6, 2023
Post-Chicago Economists vs. New Brandeisians on the New Merger Guidelines
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What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
Oct 2, 2023
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)