During the 1980s and 1990s the argument that ?maximizing shareholder value? results in superior economic performance came to dominate the corporate governance debates. In this paper, I outline the rationale for the shareholder-value perspective, and show that, rooted in agency theory, it lacks a...

Rolls-Royce plc is currently a powerful competitor in the turbofan engine industry, notwithstanding its own troubled history and the relative lack of international success of British companies in high-technology manufacturing over the past half-century. This paper seeks to contribute to the...

How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s? What are the prospects for the re-emergence of sustainable prosperity in the US economy over the next generation? Situating these questions within a wider context through...