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Rather than merely altering the crops that farmers bring to harvest, biotechnology
corporations
will now try to control the genetic makeup of every component in the agricultural ecosystem, from the pollinators to the weeds and pests.
But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for
corporations
to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.
In the ten years since the global financial crisis, the debt held by nonfinancial
corporations
has grown by $29 trillion – almost as much as government debt – according to new research by the McKinsey Global Institute.
Debt capital markets provide an important asset class for institutional investors, and give large
corporations
an alternative to bank loans.
Disputes over investor protection clauses in trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership focus on concerns that arcane tribunals protecting the interests of foreign
corporations
can undermine national sovereignty.
The transfer of public money to private
corporations
is far more attractive than old-fashioned market capitalism.
During the 1970’s, when the transnational
corporations
(TNC’s) undertaking such investment caught the public eye, many governments believed that the costs of FDI outweighed its benefits, so they controlled it.
Global
corporations
play a crucial role not only in creating the jobs that will turn our economies around, but also in creating opportunities for people to become part of that skilled workforce.
Groups like CONAIE see the FTAA as a project initiated to give US
corporations
more access to Latin America's natural resources and cheap labor.
The FTAA is far too concerned with protecting
corporations
to be capable of addressing the issues that most trouble Latin America's citizens.
Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of
corporations
and financial firms.
Second, the profits and earnings of
corporations
and financial institutions will not rebound as fast as the consensus predicts, as weak economic growth, deflationary pressures, and surging defaults on corporate bonds will limit firms’ pricing power and keep profit margins low.
Yet, although education is essential to fight obesity, it is far from clear whether it will be enough in a food environment dominated by large
corporations
with deep pockets and every incentive to cultivate excessive consumption.
They have a rather closed system of big
corporations
and big labour unions loosely directed by an interventionist government with the collaboration of big banks.
But don’t
corporations
also have a duty to train the labor force from which they recruit?
But at a time when the public is increasingly skeptical of corporations, CEOs are hardly in a position to complain about the effects Brexit will have on their bottom line.
Retired officers head many, if not most, public
corporations.
American
corporations
donate about $7 billion annually to global health, but only $500 million to education in developing countries.
And, unfortunately, such financial risk-taking may have little impact in terms of spurring
corporations
to assume more risk by investing.
As income is redistributed from labor to capital, it flows from those who have a higher marginal propensity to spend (low- and middle-income households) to those who have a higher marginal propensity to save (high-income households and corporations).
In this sense, the main imbalance that China must address is not between consumption and investment, but between households on one hand and the government and
corporations
on the other.
Moreover, significant societal benefits – for example, more cohesive families and communities – come from investment that creates jobs, so a lower interest rate will give
corporations
the necessary subsidy to invest.
There is, however, scant evidence that the real problem holding back investment is excessively high wages (many
corporations
reduced overtime and benefit contributions, and even cut wages during the recession).
Moreover, with interest rates for large
corporations
at their lowest level in decades (negative in real terms for the largest, so that savers are in fact paying
corporations
to borrow their money), the cost of capital is probably not the main reason why they are not investing more in the US.
But, apparently, multinational
corporations
and wealthy individuals can get away with paying hardly anything.
Some of it is a destructive transfer from consumers to shareholders as
corporations
gain more monopoly power, some of it is an improvement in efficiency from better management and more appropriately scaled operations, and some of it is overpayment by those who become irrationally exuberant when companies get their names in the news.
Ahn, who has been in the running for only two months, has attacked Samsung, LG, and other major
corporations
for treating their subcontractors and employees “like caged animals in a zoo.”
This, of course, makes these enterprises vulnerable to the creative challenges of the next wave of explorers – the fast new firms that confront the fat old
corporations
– and the cycle of destruction and reconstruction begins anew.
Think of all the
corporations
that have fired great numbers of people at the drop of a share price, leaving behind underpaid, overworked employees and burned-out managers, while the CEOs escape with their bonuses.
Public support should be shifted from protecting large established
corporations
to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises.
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