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Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.
Sep 19, 2024
The financialization of U.S. firms making critical products endangers both American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.
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Video
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
Sep 18, 2024
Bringing together 150 years of data, Ellora Derenoncourt is shedding new light on our understanding of the historical roots and persistent challenges of the U.S. racial wealth gap. This new picture highlights the scale of policies needed to achieve economic equality.
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News
Smart Energy Quotes INET-Grantee Michael Grubb on UCL’s Net Zero Market Design Center
Sep 17, 2024
Smart Energy
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Article
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
Working PaperTesla 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 Power of Free Public Transit
Sep 11, 2024
Eliminating transit fares can transform lives, connect people to jobs, healthcare, and essential services in more equitable ways.
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Partnership
National Law School of India University
NLSIU was the first National Law University established in India to pioneer legal education reforms. The University has remained a leader in the field of legal education in India for over 30 years. NLSIU has been consistently ranked No 1 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework since 2018 – the year when NIRF law rankings was introduced.
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Video
The Human Cost of Efficiency
Sep 4, 2024
It’s time to rethink the narrative and recognize the real legacy of forced labor.
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Article
Alexander Hamilton’s Assault on Working People, Enslaved and Free
Sep 1, 2024
A new book, The Hamilton Scheme, explores a very different founder than the one we’ve come to think we know.
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Video
The Productivity Puzzle
Aug 28, 2024
There’s more to the census than demographics.
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Article
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
Working PaperScale 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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News
Rolling Stone, Salon, and Bloomberg cite Ledley’s INET-supported research on government seed funding and drug price negotiations
Aug 22, 2024
“…the prohibition on negotiating price was kind of a poison pill in the original Medicare Act.”
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Article
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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Article
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.