Category: stakeholder capitalism

Large Corporations Attempt to ‘Usurp the Power of Government’ Contrary to Shareholders’ Interests: Expert

Disney’s active opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law resulted in the company’s stock pricing falling and a reduction in its market cap. The stock’s decline will mostly impact the retirement savings of the working class, said Stephen Soukup, author of the book “The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business.”…


Trudeau to Travel to Europe to Talk Ukraine, Climate Change, ‘Inclusive Growth’

News Analysis Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday he will be travelling to Europe next week to discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine, as well as other topics such as climate change and “inclusive growth.” “Of course we’ll be discussing how to continue to support Ukraine, how to strengthen democratic values around the world, and…


Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game

Commentary In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat suggested that woke capitalism works by substitut­ing symbolic value for economic value. Under woke capitalism, corporations offer workers rhetorical pla­cebos in lieu of costlier economic concessions, such as higher wages and better benefits. The same gestures of woke­ness also appease the…


Woke Capital Won’t Save the Planet—But It Will Crash the Economy

Commentary Judged by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s latest letter, January 2022 might turn out to be the highwater mark of woke capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is not “woke,” Fink says, because capitalism is driven by mutually beneficial relationships between businesses and their stakeholders. He’s right. What Fink describes is capitalism pure and simple, the stakeholder modifier adding…


How Stakeholder Capitalism Helps China and Harms the US

Commentary If there’s one thing progressives love doing, it’s apologizing. They apologize for being racist, for white privilege, for polluting the planet; in short, they apologize for anything and everything. The word sorry, like the U.S. dollar, continues to lose its purchasing power. If everyone is sorry, then no one is sorry. Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of…