On January 22, 2025 The Roosevelt Institute the January installment of the Book Club! This month we were delighted to welcome author and Roosevelt Senior Fellow Lenore Palladino to discuss her new book, Good Company: Economic Policy After Shareholder Primacy.
Today’s corporations operate with short-term goals to deliver profits to shareholders rather than investing in innovation. But corporations wield their power thanks to public charters, with the assumption that the companies will repay their debts to society via innovations that improve our lives. In this exciting new work, Palladino imagines what a “good” company can look like today: one that delivers both economic and social benefits. In the process, she confronts myths about shareholders as investors, offers a concise introduction to the political economy of the firm, and proposes concrete policy solutions to restore the public corporation as an engine of prosperity for the many rather than the few.
Speakers
Lenore Palladino
Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow and author of Good Company: Economic Policy After Shareholder PrimacyLenore Palladino is associate professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst. She is a research associate at the UMass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. She holds a PhD from the New School University in economics and a JD from Fordham Law School. Her portfolio of work is available at lenorepalladino.com.
Hannah Groch-Begley
Think Tank Director, Roosevelt Institute [Moderator]Hannah manages the day-to-day of research staff for the think tank’s programmatic areas: climate and economic transformation, corporate power, macroeconomic analysis, race and democracy, and worker power and economic security.
Previously, Hannah led research programs at national progressive institutions studying reproductive rights, disability rights, and anti-poverty programs in the United States. At NARAL Pro-Choice America, she founded the organization’s first opposition research team, studying the tactics and strategies of the extremist antiabortion movement.