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Business corporations interact with household units and government agencies to make investments in productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services. When they work harmoniously, these three types of organizations constitute 'the investment triad'. The Biden administration's Build Back Better agenda to restore sustainable prosperity in the United States has focused on investment in productive capabilities by government agencies and household units. Largely absent from the Biden agenda have been policy initiatives to ensure that, given government and household investment in productive capabilities, the governance of major U.S. business corporations supports investment in innovation. This Element explains how corporate financialization, manifested by predatory value extraction in the name of 'maximizing shareholder value', undermines investment in innovation in the United States. It concludes by outlining a policy framework, beginning with a ban on stock buybacks, that confronts predatory value extraction and puts in place social institutions that support sustainable prosperity.

Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse.

Der Band versammelt die um Anmerkungen ergänzten Vorträge zu verfassungs- und medienrechtlichen Fragen, die am 8. Februar 2020 an der Universität Passau im Rahmen des Symposiums aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstages von Herbert Bethge zu Ehren des Jubilars und in Würdigung seines rechtswissenschaftlichen Lebenswerks gehalten worden sind.

Die Utz Gruppe mit Sitz im schweizerischen Bremgarten ist ein Familienunternehmen, das auf 75 bewegte Jahre zurückblickt. 1947 von Georg Utz gegründet, etablierte es sich erfolgreich in der schnell wachsenden Kunststoffbranche. Utz-Mehrwegbehälter sind heute auf der ganzen Welt in der automatisierten Logistik anzutreffen. Über 40 Jahre lang stand das Unternehmen unter der prägenden Führung des Firmengründers Georg Utz. Entsprechend anspruchsvoll gestaltete sich der Generationenwechsel sowie die Frage nach der Family Governance. In diesem Buch wird aus Sicht der heutigen Inhaberfamilie eindrücklich beschrieben, weshalb sich das Unternehmen noch immer mehrheitlich in ihrem Besitz befindet und weshalb es sich lohnt, sich immer wieder neu mit den eigenen Wurzeln und Werten zu befassen, um als Familie und Unternehmen weiter zu wachsen. Das Buch ist ein Plädoyer für Familienunternehmen, da hier langfristiges Denken und wertebasierte Strategien noch stärker vorhanden sind als in von anonymen Shareholdern gelenkten Firmen. So engagiert sich die Utz Gruppe vorbildlich für eine nachhaltige Kreislaufwirtschaft der Ressource Kunststoff sowie für einen verantwortungsbewussten Umgang mit ihren Mitarbeitenden. Im Hintergrund wirkt dabei das Bewusstsein der Eigentümerfamilie, dass die Firma nicht nur ein Erbe der früheren Generationen ist, sondern auch eine Leihgabe der Nachkommen.

"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead, he set out to transform the nation. He proposed the most ambitious domestic spending bills since the 1960s and vowed to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, ending the nation's longest war and reorienting it toward a looming competition with China. With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled. With his back to the wall, Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and compromise. It was a gamble that seemed at first disastrously anachronistic, as he struggled to rally even the support of his own party. Yet, as the midterms drew near, via a series of bills with banal names, Biden somehow found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy, the domestic semiconductor industry, and new infrastructure. Had he done the impossible-breaking decisively with the old Washington consensus to achieve progressive goals? The Last Politician is a landmark work of political reporting-which includes thrilling, blow-by-blow insider reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House's swift response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine-that is destined to shape history's view of a president in the eye of the storm"--