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David Cay Johnston, “Blackstone Devises Way to Avoid Taxes on $3.7 Billion,” New York Times, July 13, 2007.
“Corporate Tax Cut Benefits Wealthiest, Loses Needed Revenue, and Encourages Tax Avoidance,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/corporate-tax-cut-benefits-wealthiest-loses-needed-revenue-and-encourages-tax.
Peter S. Goodman and Patricia Cohen, “It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life,” New York Times, November 30, 2017, p. A1.
IGM Economic Experts Panel, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, November 21, 2017, http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/tax-reform-2.
Peter Cary, “Republicans Passed Tax Cuts—Then Profited,” Center for Public Integrity, January 24, 2020, https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/taxes/trumps-tax-cuts/republicans-profit-congress.
Sarah Anderson, “How Wall Street Drives Gender and Race Pay Gaps,” Inequality.org, March 26, 2019, https://inequality.org/great-divide/wall-street-bonus-pool-2019.
Peter Baker and Peter S. Goodman, “Trump and Davos: Not Exactly Best Friends, but Not Enemies Either,” New York Times, January 25, 2018, p. A1.
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, “Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing,” Institute for New Economic Thinking, September 4, 2019, https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/private-equity-and-surprise-medical-billing#_edn12.
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, “Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?” Institute for New Economic Thinking, March 25, 2020, https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/private-equity-buyouts-in-healthcare-who-wins-who-loses.
Zack Cooper, Fiona Scott Morton, and Nathan Shekita, “Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 23623, July 2017, p. 4, https://www.nber.org/papers/w23623.
Margot Sanger-Katz, Julie Creswell, and Reed Abelson, “Mystery Solved: Private-Equity-Backed Firm Are Behind Ad Blitz on ‘Surprise Billing,’” New York Times, September 14, 2019, p. B3.
Reed Abelson, “When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More,” New York Times, November 14, 2018, p. B1.
Lev Facher, “Amid Coronavirus, Private Equity-Backed Company Slashes Benefits for Emergency Room Doctors,” STAT, April 1, 2020, https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/01/slashes-benefits-for-doctors-coronavirus.
Jeff Stein and Peter Whoriskey, “The U.S. Plans to Lend $500 Billion to Large Companies. It Won’t Require Them to Preserve Jobs or Limit Executive Pay,” Washington Post, April 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/federal-reserve-bond-corporations.
Matt Phillips and Clifford Krauss, “American Oil Drillers Were Hanging On by a Thread. Then Came the Virus,” New York Times, March 21, 2020, p. B5.
Jesse Eisinger, “The Bailout Is Working—for the Rich,” ProPublica, May 10, 2020.
Schwarzman at Bernstein’s 36th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference, May 27, 2020, transcript posted on Seeking Alpha, https://seekingalpha.com/article/4350994-blackstone-group-inc-bx-ceo-steve-schwarzman-presents-bernsteins-36th-annual-strategic.
Graham Steele, “The New Money Trust: How Large Money Managers Control Our Economy and What We Can Do About It,” American Economic Liberties Project, November 23, 2020; Alexander Sammon, “The Dawn of the BlackRock Era,” The American Prospect, May 15, 2020.
Letter to Mnuchin and Powell from Members of Congress, April 22, 2020, https://chuygarcia.house.gov/sites/chuygarcia.house.gov/files/Congressional%20Letter%20to%20Fed%2 0Treas%204_22.pdf.
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, “Fees, Fees and More Fees: How Private Equity Abuses Its Limited Partners and U.S. Taxpayers,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2016, https://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/private-equity-fees-2016-05.pdf.
Ludovic Phallipou, “An Inconvenient Fact: Private Equity Returns & the Billionaire Factory,” University of Oxford, Said Business School, Working Paper, July 15, 2020, available at SSRN, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623820.
Eileen Appelbaum, “CEPR Statement on New Labor Department Guidance Allowing Risky Private Equity Investments in Workers’ 401(k) Accounts,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 4, 2020, https://cepr.net/cepr-statement-on-new-labor-department-guidance-allowing-risky-private-equity-investments-in-workers-401k-accounts.
Klaus Schwab, Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People, and the Planet (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021), 171.
Laurence D. Fink, Annual Letter to CEOs, January 2018, http://www.corporance.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Larry-Fink-letter-to-CEOs-2018-1.pdf.
Laurence D. Fink, “A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance,” Letter to CEOs, January 2020, https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter.
Patrick Greenfield and Jasper Jolly, “BlackRock Joins Pressure Group Taking on Biggest Polluters,” Guardian, January 10, 2020.
Matt Phillips, “The Stock Buyback Binge May Be Over. For Now,” New York Times, March 25, 2020, p. B4.
Lucien Bebcuk and Roberto Tallarita, “The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance,” Cornell Law Review, July 1, 2020.
Rosalie Chan, Benjamin Pimentel, Ashley Stewart, Paayal Zaveri, and Jeff Elder, “The Tech Industry Has a Terrible Track Record on Diversity. Here’s How 17 Companies That Spoke Out Against Racism This Week Say They Plan to Improve,” Business Insider, June 6, 2020.
Jody Heymann, Hye Jin Rho, John Schmitt, and Alison Earle, “Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2009, https://cepr.net/documents/publications/paid-sick-days-2009-05.pdf.
Alex Harman, “Prime Gouging: How Amazon Raised Prices to Profit from the Pandemic,” Public Citizen, September 9, 2020, https://www.citizen.org/article/prime-gouging.
Ron Knox and Shaoul Sussman, “How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power,” The Nation, June 26, 2020.
Paul Blest, “Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate,’” Vice News, April 2, 2020, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate.
Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, and Grace Ashford, “The Amazon That Customers Don’t See,” New York Times, June 15, 2021.
David Sirota, “Amazon & Trump Agency Blocked Worker Safety Initiative Amid Pandemic,” TMI, May 1, 2020, https://sirota.substack.com/p/scoop-amazon-and-trump-agency-blocked.
Tim Bray, “Bye Amazon,” a blog post, May 4, 2020, https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon#p-3.
Peter S. Goodman and Gaia Pianigiani, “Why COVID Caused Such Suffering in Italy’s Wealthiest Region,” New York Times, November 21, 2020, p. B1.
Jane Bradley, Selam Gebrekidan, and Allison McCann, “Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending,” New York Times, December 17, 2020.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018), 201–3.
Matina Stevis-Gridneff, “E.U. Adopts Groundbreaking Stimulus to Fight Coronavirus Recession,” New York Times, July 22, 2020, p. A1.
“Easyjet Seeks State Loans—But Pays Stelios £60 Million,” Times (London), March 20, 2020.
Kathryn Ardizzone, “Role of the Federal Government in the Development of GS-5734/Remdesivir,” Knowledge Ecology International, Briefing Note 2020:1, https://www.keionline.org/BN-2020-1.
Ekaterina Galkina Cleary, Matthew J. Jackson, and Fred D. Ledley, “Government as the First Investor in Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence from New Drug Approvals 2010–2019,” Institute for New Economic Thinking, Working Paper No. 133, August 5, 2020, https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_133-Cleary-et-al-Govt-innovation.pdf.
William Lazonick, Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Öner Tulum, “U.S. Pharma’s Financialized Business Model,” Institute for New Economic Thinking, Working Paper No. 60, July 13, 2017, https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_60-Lazonick-et-al-US-Pharma-Business-Model.pdf.
Christopher Rowland, “An HIV Treatment Cost Taxpayers Millions. The Government Patented It. But a Pharma Giant Is Making Billions,” Washington Post, March 26, 2019.
Warren E. Leary, “U.S. Gives Up Right to Control Drug Prices,” New York Times, April 12, 1995, p. A23.
Melanie D. Whittington and Jonathan D. Campbell, “Alternative Pricing Models for Remdesivir and Other Potential Treatments for COVID-19,” Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, May 1, 2020.
Peter S. Goodman, “One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality,” New York Times, December 26, 2020, p. A1.
Peter S. Goodman, Apoorva Mandavilli, Rebecca Robbins, and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, “What Would It Take to Vaccinate the World Against COVID?” New York Times, May 16, 2021, p. A1.
World Bank data, updated October 7, 2020, https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview.
