Cancelling Capitalism?

24 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2022

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Christina Parajon Skinner

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); EUSFIL Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

Date Written: January 4, 2022

Abstract

GROW THE PIE: HOW GREAT COMPANIES DELIVER BOTH PURPOSE AND PROFIT. By Alex Edmans. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. 357. $24.95.

The main goal of this Review is to highlight what I see as Alex Edmans’s most important contribution in writing Grow the Pie—to explain why profits are pro-social—and then to expand the connection between his analysis to law and macroeconomic policy. The Review thus urges that Grow the Pie provides a compelling foundation for considering why our existing legal frameworks should support the status quo, as enabling free-market capitalism, and proposals for radical reform should be abandoned. Ultimately, and ideally, this Review will draw attention to the ways in which Edmans’ data synthesis provides a compelling defensive of a free-market corporate law landscape, influencing the trajectory of U.S. corporate law and financial regulatory reform in the next few years.

Suggested Citation

Skinner, Christina Parajon, Cancelling Capitalism? (January 4, 2022). Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 97, 2022, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4000768

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