20/20 Vision in the Long & Short-Termism Debate

Publication Title

Seattle University Law Review

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

What is an optimal investment time horizon—for institutions, individual shareholders and corporations? This question can evoke emotional, ideological, and theoretical responses. The answers usually deeply entrenched debates over the fundamental roles of markets versus regulation and between the appropriate loci of corporate power: the board of directors versus the shareholders. Too long-term and it is myopia; too near-term and is it short-termism. Neither label is inconsequential, so the debates are not tepid, academic, or marginal.

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Anne Tucker, 20/20 Vision in the Long & Short-Termism Debate, 41 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. 337 (2018).

Volume

41

Issue

2

First Page

337

Last Page

347

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