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Corporations Don't Have to Maximize Profits (2015)

12 pointsby speckxtoday at 8:13 PM2 commentsview on HN

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graemeptoday at 8:53 PM

This is true in a narrow legal sense, but when directors are given incentives to maximise share prices in the short term, the business culture says that is their duty to do so, that is what they will do.

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