The Ugly Truth About Stakeholder Capitalism

Published Jan 24, 2025, 5:00 AM

Guests: Andrew F. Puzder & Patricia Bart

Host Scot Bertram talks with Andrew F. Puzder, former executive officer of CKE Restaurants, distinguished visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and Senior Fellow at America First Policy Institute, about how asset management firms use their unprecedented levels of stock ownership in major US companies to force their own "ESG" agenda on the corporate sector. They also discuss Puzder's new book A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism. And Patricia R. Bart, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, concludes an in-depth series on the history of the English language.