Now that shareholder capitalism is on its way out, let’s not replace one management straitjacket with another. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck was interviewed in March by Nikkei Asia. "Using DEI practices to artificially raise disadvantaged peoples... The post Shareholders of companies worth $13 trillion ...

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.

Shareholder capitalism. Mass layoffs, we are told, grow directly from the two irreversible drivers of prosperous economies: globalisation and technology. Every corporation now competes in world ...

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 ...

Writing shortly before President Trump’s return to the White House, Peter Thiel hailed the election as an apokálypsis, an unveiling, of the ancien régime’s secrets. “The new administration ...