“A … 1976 Supreme Court case … gave corporations … a First Amendment right to inform consumers …. In the years that followed, lawyers … morphed that consumer-rights victory into a corporate free-speech movement.” https://t.co/yy0oc8MR5Z #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 28, 2018
“House Speaker Paul Ryan said [tax] reform meant companies like Harley would be able to keep jobs in America. In January, a CNBC survey of the 100 largest companies by market capitalization determined that’s not happening” https://t.co/KY6vjdZ6BS #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 28, 2018
“rare, candid & bracing talk from executives atop corporate America”: “Americans should stop waiting for across-the-board pay hikes coinciding w/ higher corporate profit; to cash in, workers will need to shift to higher-skilled jobs ….” https://t.co/wWkf20pGKT #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 28, 2018
The curse of corporate bigness: “the disempowered would eventually demand more & more benefits from the government….. Brandeis told the crowd …, the ‘great captains of industry & finance’ were ‘the chief makers of socialism.'” @adamwinkler, We the Corporations, 214 #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 29, 2018
“mutual fund investment time horizons, as measured by portfolio turnover ratios, did not decline during 2005–15…. Based on this analysis, scholars and policymakers may think of mutual fund investment time horizons as short, but not shortening.” https://t.co/7PNVzAjx2z #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 29, 2018
“We find that patent examiners grant significantly more patents to the firms that later hire them …. Together with other supporting evidence, we argue these results are suggestive of regulatory capture.” https://t.co/dlOUfkfMQr #corpgov ht @BenPEdwards @BrianJLove
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) May 30, 2018