Read more on this destructive and erroneous idea of “Shareholder Value”:
— The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, by Katharina Pistor (Princeton University Press, 2019)
— The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public, by Lynn Stout (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012)
— Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America, by Gerald F. Davis (Oxford University Press, 2009)
— The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of 21st Century Capitalist Societies, by
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