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    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
      On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley
      It’s still Ben Bernanke and Milton Friedman’s Fed

      Central bank policymakers do not seem to want to find new tools that work

    • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
      Geoffrey Owen
      Shareholder capitalism works best for society

      Businesses can and should pursue environmental and other social goals within the present legal framework

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Mary O'Sullivan
      The economic lure of alternative worlds

      Central bankers ought to wonder why they succumbed to a fantasy about the Great Depression

    • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
      ReviewEconomics books
      Samuelson and Friedman — a rivalry that echoes down to the present

      A new look at two giants of postwar economics whose views shaped the free market

    • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
      Behind the Money podcast22 min listen
      Inside ESG: can businesses really marry profit and purpose?

      Danone and the good corporate citizen

    • Monday, 31 May, 2021
      Special ReportLuigi Zingales
      How should companies decide on their ESG goals?

      Investors can transmit their preferences via their choice of mutual fund and watching how it votes

    • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
      John Plender
      Stakeholder capitalism must find ways to hold management to account

      The prevailing commitment to short-termist shareholder value has undermined corporate resilience

    • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
      Moira O'Neill
      Try ‘from couch to £5k’ and run the investment marathon

      Savers overweight in cash should consider putting the surplus into funds, stocks and bonds

    • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
      Martin Wolf
      Milton Friedman was wrong on the corporation

      The doctrine that has guided economists and businesses for 50 years needs re-evaluation

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      Covid has put ‘stakeholder capitalism’ on steroids

      The new ‘save everything’ paternalism is burying companies’ basic need to make a profit

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      Andrew Hill
      When Milton Friedman, prophet of profit, met a pandemic

      Coronavirus sheds fresh light on the economist’s narrow definition of social responsibility

    • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
      Michelle Meagher
      Fifty years of shareholder value have swollen monopoly power

      We will not leave Friedman’s doctrine behind until there is a European movement to rebuild competition

    • Tuesday, 28 July, 2020
      Robin Harding
      Rage against central banks is misdirected

      The real problem is a declining natural rate of interest through demographic shifts and lower productivity growth

    • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
      Izabella Kaminska
      Look closely at the motives of the Facebook boycotters

      With advertising budgets under pressure during the pandemic, it is tempting to be cynical

    • Monday, 20 January, 2020
      News in-depthFT Alphaville
      How too much virtue signalling hinders stakeholder capitalism 

      And why meaningful corporate-specific targets are needed if social impact objectives are to be achieved.

    • Tuesday, 24 December, 2019
      FT CollectionsBrexit
      Best of our weekday letters 2019

      From China’s economic miracle to Friedman, GDPR and the yellowhammer’s song

    • Friday, 16 August, 2019
      FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
      Is there such a thing as a free lunch? German banks edition

      Who is right? Twitter or Milton Friedman? 

    • Sunday, 11 November, 2018
      Luigi Zingales
      Public companies should prioritise shareholder welfare, not value

      Most of us would sacrifice some money for our beliefs. So should the companies we own

    • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
      FT Magazine
      How a volatility virus infected Wall Street

      The collapse of a few small funds in February helped fuel a terrifying stock-market slide. Why?

    • Wednesday, 3 January, 2018
      Philip Augar
      A call for corporate boards to overturn the status quo

      It took the banking crisis of 2008 to expose the flaws of shareholder value

    • Friday, 2 December, 2016
      FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
      Podcast: Keynes vs Hayek — who’s winning now?
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2016
      FT AlphavilleCentral banks
      Monetary policy: it’s mostly fiscal
    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2016
      FT Magazine
      How I learnt to love the economic blogosphere

      How do you sift through 794 economic blog posts in a single morning? Giles Wilkes ascends the landslide

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2016
      FT AlphavilleEurozone economy
      Koo: Why US Quantitative Easing “worked” better than other QEs
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2016
      Deirdre McCloskey
      Business is as ethical as it has ever been

      Recent scandals do not signify a wider malaise in the corporate world, writes Deirdre McCloskey

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