Opportunities to spend other people’s money are a joy, and a fortiori when the goals being pursued are political and thus guaranteed to elicit applause from the right-minded at all the right cocktail parties. This is a substantial problem for corporate governance, as proposals presented for shareholder votes often have little to do with business operations that in principle are supposed to maximize shareholder value, that is, the economic value of investments in the given company.
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