Climate policy’s latest threat to property rights

Say what you will about Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, but when it comes to property rights, he is pretty consistent. He was chairman of the Business Roundtable when, in 2019, in a statement co-signed by a large number of CEOs, it jettisoned its support for shareholder primacy — the idea that the principal purpose of a corporation is to generate return for its shareholders. That was old hat. Now corporations should “deliver value” to all their stakeholders, of which shareholders are only one class.

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