Under shareholder capitalism, American big business has disinvested in the United States and moved work to where labor is cheap and the government subsidies are bigger.

Corporations should still strive to maximize investor returns, but in some cases, other values should take precedence.

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American-style shareholder capitalism, with its incessant focus on maximizing stock value, started gaining primacy over European/Japanese-style stakeholder capitalism in the 1980s.

What's True. In a speech on July 9, Biden proposed to "put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism — the idea [that] the only responsibility a corporation has is to its shareholders." ...

Shareholder Capitalism Is Back. After spending too many years trying to signal their virtue, companies are focusing once again on returns to investors. March 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM EDT.

Central to Puzder’s account of the attempt to destroy shareholder capitalism is the role of the Big Three asset managers -- BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors.

Stakeholder capitalism refers—or at least used to refer—to the idea that companies should serve not just their shareholders, but also other societal interests.

Stakeholder capitalism proposes that corporations should serve the interests of all their stakeholders, and not just shareholders. Stakeholders can include investors, owners, employees, vendors ...

Shareholder capitalism drives management actions like hiring and layoffs, price-cutting, budgeting and expansion. There is a reciprocal stakeholder theory, of course.

Shareholder Capitalism Is Back. March 10, 2025 • Allison Schrager. The virtue economy, the only bubble I have ever called, has now completely burst. Many companies are cutting their DEI programs ...

Perhaps Friedman’s shareholder capitalism no longer makes sense in the modern economy – especially if your business is working with data. And especially if your software aids the military or helps ...