Pension funds and sovereign-wealth funds own a large and increasing fraction of the shares in publicly traded companies in the OECD area. These funds typically have a very long time horizon on their investments, as well as highly diversified portfolios. These features imply that the interests of...

David H. Webber shines a light on labor's most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and in the courts, state houses, and Washington, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism is a...

Introduction -- Chapter I: The Early American Corporation -- Chapter II: Adolf Berle and the Modern Corporation -- Chapter III: The Rise of Asset Manager Capitalism -- Chapter IV: The Emergence of the Shareholder Primacy Paradigm -- Chapter V: The New Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG -- Chapter...