Remember this? 🤔 Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, bragged to the WEF in 2022 about how the United Nations partnered with Google to manipulate search results on climate change. 🇺🇳 💬 “𝑾𝒆 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆

Many people are saying it! economicforces.xyz/p/why-you-shou…

In the next #HayekProgramme lecture on 9 October, David McLean will make a case for shareholder capitalism, as an approach that emphasises beneficial trade within the rules of the game, within which firms fuel innovation & economic growth. sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/ev…

Now mark the trend line with the year in which federal safety regulations on cars were introduced.

What I’m Reading: Excellent book on how statistics are used (and abused) to support a false narrative. Very relevant in today’s world. Highly recommend! Alex Edmans

Here is a 15-minute summary of some of the main arguments in my shareholder capitalism book. It explains how creating value for shareholders is achieved by making long-term investments that benefit not just shareholders but also other stakeholders. I also delve into some of the

If you missed the #Hayek lecture on the case for shareholder capitalism by David McLean, you can watch in on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=OVDMvh…

Last week, we had a full house for our LSE #Hayek Programme lecture on the case for shareholder capitalism by David McLean Find out more in the link below: sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/ev…

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If you're a central banker and you care about X (fill in your favorite topic), so you just start saying X matters for price stability to rationalize the central bank getting involved in X, then you're jeopardizing your independence as a central bank, because voters will see

There is no correlation between workforce diversity and firm performance, regardless of whether (a) diversity is measured using gender, ethnic, or age diversity; (b) performance is measured using return on equity, gross profit, or labor productivity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fi…

If a business is sustainable it should by definition be able to sustain itself. Its survival should not depend on government subsidies. Renewable-energy stocks tank after Trump wins White House marketwatch.com/story/renewabl… via MarketWatch

If you present the average person with two funds and tell them one invests in "sustainable" companies, and the other does not, which one will they pick? If you instead tell them that one invests in companies that depend on government subsidies to survive and the other does not,

Forgot to share these pics from Oct of another event on SHAREHOLDER capitalism, ft. David McLean. Very popular with many students, we had to turn people away and I almost got in trouble. Video below.

Yet another "sustainable" business goes bankrupt. "Public “investments” didn’t much help Northvolt...European governments backed a $5 billion loan for Northvolt to expand a Swedish factory. Northvolt’s CEO at the time called the deal “a milestone for the European energy

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For those in business and investing, I really enjoyed The Case for Shareholder Capitalism by David McLean at Georgetown University. A thorough, methodical, and persuasive discussion of why shareholder value (correctly understood) is good for all stakeholders.

The Great Thomas Sowell is 94. There is still time for President Trump to award Professor Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom!!! Donald J. Trump Stephen Miller Karoline Leavitt Donald Trump Jr. Eric Trump Thomas Sowell Quotes

Republicans may control the White House and Congress, but when it comes to climate change, the UN is trying to call the shots — and we’re all paying for it. | David McLean trib.al/JsZRX0c

Missed yesterday's webinar? David McLean and Michael Piwowar explored the ideas in McLean's book, The Case for Shareholder Capitalism: How the Pursuit of Profit Benefits All. They unpack the concept of shareholder capitalism and how this idea extends beyond finance as it has