Specifically, stakeholder is a supercategory of shareholder. If they meant just the “activist” language, then they could specify like they do with “violence” later, but looking at the article it seems they offer no such specification. It’s perfectly possible that these “Third Way” authors are such fools that they forgot it’s a new use of an existing term that their corporate overlords hold dear, though.
they definitely just want to banish the idea that communities and government regulators have stakes in private projects, because that implies they should be able to have a say
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Stakeholders are different from shareholders, but it’s still a regular term in economics:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stakeholder.asp
Specifically, stakeholder is a supercategory of shareholder. If they meant just the “activist” language, then they could specify like they do with “violence” later, but looking at the article it seems they offer no such specification. It’s perfectly possible that these “Third Way” authors are such fools that they forgot it’s a new use of an existing term that their corporate overlords hold dear, though.
they definitely just want to banish the idea that communities and government regulators have stakes in private projects, because that implies they should be able to have a say