These aren't bold claims, it's literally how stocks work. The belief of shareholders actually owning the company was just a side-effect of the marketing for sh

These aren't bold claims, it's literally how stocks work. The belief of shareholders actually owning the company was just a side-effect of the marketing for shareholder primacy ideology. Even recent finance/management textbooks specifically call this out. Some sources: https://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders https://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders https://www.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879b-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896 https://www.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879b-11e5-90de-f44762bf9...