“What’s the Matter With Delaware? A Book Talk & Discussion Event” 3/1 @ 4pm
It’s a zoom thing, so no excuses. And don’t give me that “I’m working” or “I’ll be at work.” bullshit.
“What’s the Matter with Delaware? A Book Talk & Discussion Event”
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 4:00pm
Via Zoom (Registration required)
At this event, author Hal Weitzman will discuss his recent book, What’s the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal – and How It Costs Us All, in conversation with University of Delaware faculty, and the audience.
The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? Why do so many small companies choose to set up in Delaware rather than their home states? Why do wealthy individuals form multiple layers of private companies in the state? What’s the Matter with Delaware? reveals the systematic enterprise that lies behind the state’s business-friendly veneer – and the global consequences of Delaware’s influence on corporate America.
Hal Weitzman is executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Review and host of The Big Question, Booth’s monthly discussion series. From 2000 to 2012 he was a reporter and editor at the Financial Times; his reporting has also appeared in The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, New Statesman, The Irish Times, Slate, and Politico.
Commenters: Dr. Stephen Metraux (The Biden School) and Dr. Dael A. Norwood (History Department).
This event is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Hagley Program in the History of Capitalism, Technology, and Culture, the Political Science & International Relations Department, and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware.
We hope you can join us on March 1st!
Note: Pre-registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Hmmm… Sounds like a must attend to me, if for no other reason then I’d really like to know. Other then insatiable greed of course.
I thought these names looked familiar!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e179-whats-the-matter-with-delaware-w-hal-weitzman/id1473981057?i=1000565115407
I bought my dad that book! I think I mentioned that here already. A generally quite conservative guy (one of the like 19 Republicans who hae vowed never to vote for Trump or Desantis), and he liked it.
Get you dad registered for the talk!
Thing is Hal is a former FT editor and works for the University of Chicago business school. Hardly Friedrich Engels.
Very nice guy and has a fairly posh British accent even though he’s from Wales! 🏴
Should be a good event.
We’ve actually had trolls here whine that if we did away with Delaware’s tax haven status, state taxes would have to go up. You’d better have a fleet of wahmbulances on standby.
If we didn’t steal all this stuff we’d have to pay for it ourselves!
Actually, Weitzman’s argument sort of covers this. He’s not proposing doing away with anything necessarily. He’s proposing real reforms and democratic oversight. Transparency, basically.
If you want to get a corporate certificate in 30 minutes and provide literally no documentation what is the point of that exactly?
Those trolls should register for the talk!
Uh, you might want to read the book.
You’d learn something–if you were willing to learn.