Shareholder Value or Public Purpose? From John Maynard Keynes and Adolf Berle to the Modern Debate
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Keywords
Corporate purpose; shareholder primacy; John Maynard Keynes; Adolf Berle;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
- L21 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Business Objectives of the Firm
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2021-06-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2021-06-28 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2021-06-28 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2021-06-28 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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