Colin Mayer
Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the European Corporate Governance Institute, a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and St Anne’s College, Oxford. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours. He leads the British Academy enquiry into “the Future of the Corporation”.
Friedman 50 Years Later
The Purpose of Business is to Solve Problems of Society, Not to Cause Them
Claims that a stakeholder-focused system of corporate governance cannot succeed in the US are perverse because they take as given that corporations...
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Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Misunderstands Innovation. This is how we fix it.
Antitrust misunderstands innovation by focusing almost entirely on incentives to innovate to the neglect of questions regarding the ability to innovate through...
Digital Platforms
How Should the Law Tackle Rapidly Evolving Financial Technologies?
The last half-century has witnessed an explosion of technology changing how the financial landscape functions for customers and new and legacy banking...
News
The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather
In their first of two volumes, historians of economics Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first...
News
International Policymaking Must Evolve
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
ESG
Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
Academic Capture
Event Notes: Academic Bias Under the Microscope
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
Commentary
Corporations Are Not “We the People”
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
