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If you were to ask me what the greatest intellectual error of the past fifty years has been I wouldn’t hesitate. Shareholder value. It’s an easy response. Yes, it reflects my own curious interest in the fundamentals of business and its intersection with economics, but it is also emblematic of so much more.Derived as it is from the wrong turn in economics and politics in the middle of the last century it carries with it so many of the ill founded ideas that have brought us all to where we are now: bedeviled once more by the social question....Distribution. The Radford Free PressThe Social QuestionPeter Radford
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If you were to ask me what the greatest intellectual error of the past fifty years has been I wouldn’t hesitate. Shareholder value. It’s an easy response. Yes, it reflects my own curious interest in the fundamentals of business and its intersection with economics, but it is also emblematic of so much more.Derived as it is from the wrong turn in economics and politics in the middle of the last century it carries with it so many of the ill founded ideas that have brought us all to where we are now: bedeviled once more by the social question....Distribution. The Radford Free PressThe Social QuestionPeter Radford
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If you were to ask me what the greatest intellectual error of the past fifty years has been I wouldn’t hesitate. Shareholder value. It’s an easy response. Yes, it reflects my own curious interest in the fundamentals of business and its intersection with economics, but it is also emblematic of so much more.Distribution.Derived as it is from the wrong turn in economics and politics in the middle of the last century it carries with it so many of the ill founded ideas that have brought us all to where we are now: bedeviled once more by the social question....