Despite the popular wisdom that shareholders of a firm are its true owners, there is no sense, legal or otherwise, to which this is true. This post will serve to survey some of the political science literature and the contemporary legal scholarship which I believe thoroughly debunks the shareholder value…
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Tyler Clark is a writer of Lodestone Blog. He's a current graduate student and prospective economist. He writes about economics & political economy (in addition to barking about books). Follow Him On Twitter @traptamagotchi
The whole of social science and legal research offers vast amounts of evidence to disabuse any notion that free markets exist anywhere in a capitalist society. Everyone from non-economists to the general public cannot escape this reality. We as individuals have no choice but to exist under capitalism because it…
Comments closedStereotypes are positive and negative. But no matter the distinction, they are always harmful to someone. Like all stereotypes, there exists several unfounded, uncritical and plainly false ideas about how a particular person, apparatus, system, work which then culminate into a belief system. In the case of capitalism (or the…
Comments closedThere is perhaps no more effective way to centralize (in writing) the climate disaster humans have put ourselves in other than talking about it using the most urgent language. Climate change and its effects on humanity is arguably the most pressing and consequential problem of our time and will continue…
Comments closedAs the summer kicks off and with my first semester of graduate school under my belt, I decided to dedicate time to researching more political economy literature. I came across a Law & Political Economy syllabus from Law professor and scholar Amy Kapczynski at Yale Law School1 and thought I…
Comments closedThings don’t always go according to plan. In my mind I thought I would have my keycaps by now, but due to COVID the original keycaps I ordered last August were put on a longer delay than expected. Original production time was 28 weeks & they still haven’t shipped as…
Comments closedThis is the second entry in our Series on Mechanical Keyboards. We’re continuing the series in an order roughly identical to the order in which the parts were purchased. I’ll admit that I should have paced myself, but with FOMO and the unmitigated thrill of jumping into entirely new yet…
Comments closedThis is the first entry in our Series on Mechanical Keyboards. WARNING: this hobby is an expensive rabbit hole. What seems like a century ago, the end of December 2019 before everything went to shit, my cousin revealed to me his vintage IBM Model M mechanical keyboard. What’s cool about…
Comments closedThere are no more illusions that ordinary workers, from the gig economy to each corner of the service industry, are robbed every day of a livable wage and are increasingly denied access to the broader economy because they cannot even afford to pay to purchase the fruits of their own…
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