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Considerations on Inequality, Corporate Governance, and Financialization

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  • Akira Matsumoto

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Disjunctures between corporate governance, increasingly dominated by financial considerations, and social inequality have been among the motor forces of current world-wide “populist” voter revolts. This article looks for clues for the relation between economic inequality, corporate governance, and financialization by re-examining the work of Karl Marx and of Adolphe Berle and Gardiner Means. Marx is widely considered, in Japan, to have pointed out that the division of profit into the wages of management and the profit of enterprise is considered as a path to the association. However, this general interpretation in Japan may not be sufficient for capturing capitalism’s contemporary reality. This presentation develops an alternative interpretation of this chapter by combining Marx’s explanation with the theory of the separation of ownership and management proposed by Berle and Means. We then explore causal relations among income inequality, corporate governance, and financialization.

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  • Akira Matsumoto, 2020. "Considerations on Inequality, Corporate Governance, and Financialization," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(2), pages 334-340, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:54:y:2020:i:2:p:334-340
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2020.1743141
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