
Is Stock-Market Short-Termism Really Behind Climate Change?
Jun 24, 2022 Mark J. Roe disputes the widespread assumption that climate change and other problems are due to myopic profit-seeking.
Mark J. Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School. This essay draws from his new book, Missing the Target: Why Stock Market Short-Termism Is Not the Problem (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Jun 24, 2022 Mark J. Roe disputes the widespread assumption that climate change and other problems are due to myopic profit-seeking.
May 5, 2020 Ben Iverson & Mark J. Roe say a major increase in judicial capacity in the coming months is essential to avoid even more economic pain.
Mar 23, 2020 Mark J. Roe thinks the least interesting biomedical research channel could be the one that impedes economic Armageddon.
Nov 4, 2019 Mark J. Roe says the Business Roundtable's rejection of shareholder primacy reflects two main considerations.
Apr 17, 2018 Mark J. Roe warns that the restructuring mechanisms needed to insulate the economy from bank failures remain unfinished.
Some have long argued that private digital money and the technology underpinning it will revolutionize finance in the long term. But with Bitcoin plunging, stablecoins collapsing, and crypto lenders freezing withdrawals, we asked PS commentators whether the industry has a future.