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.

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

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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.

The concept of stakeholder capitalism, the alternative to shareholder capitalism, remains unclear. It can mean that a corporation must consider any group or individual affected by a firm’s objectives.

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

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

Data Is Changing Shareholder Capitalism. Corporations should still strive to maximize investor returns, but in some cases, other values should take precedence. June 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM EDT.

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 ...