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Matt Hopkins

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Matt Hopkins, PhD candidate at SOAS University of London, is also a senior researcher for the , a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His PhD thesis is titled 鈥�Strategic Control and the Role of Executive Compensation in the Innovation or Financialization of Firms鈥�. His research interests include the innovation process, executive compensation, the finance of innovation, government-business collaboration, and the global dynamics of industrial development. He has participated in a number of research projects supported by the 八卦爆料 for New Economic thinking.

Matt holds a Master鈥檚 degree from the former Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at UMass Lowell, and was named the department鈥檚 graduate student of the year in 2010. He also holds a Bachelor鈥檚 degree with a double major in Economics and English from the University of Southern Maine.

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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America鈥檚 COVID-19 Failure

Article By William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins | Jul 24, 2020

That鈥檚 the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect

How 鈥淢aximizing Shareholder Value鈥� Minimized the Strategic National Stockpile: The $5.3 Trillion Question for Pandemic Preparedness Raised by the Ventilator Fiasco

Paper Working Paper | By William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins | Jul 2020

The success of projects for pandemic preparedness and response depends on the strength of government-business collaborations.

4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic

Article By William Lazonick, Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Lenore Palladino, Mustafa Erdem Sakin莽, and 脰ner Tulum | Mar 23, 2020

It鈥檚 time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future

Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

Article By William Lazonick, 脰ner Tulum, Matt Hopkins, Mustafa Erdem Sakin莽, and Ken Jacobson | Dec 2, 2019

Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.

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