If you want to fight short-termism, you have a better chance doing so by appointing teenagers instead of workers to the boards.

Sir, Prof Louis Brennan welcomes Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act proposal that “requires companies with more than £1bn in annual revenues” that which would require the largest corporations to allow workers to choose 40 percent of their board seats … “a welcome counterforce to the inherent logic in shareholder value that necessarily results in short-term decision-making”, “Humans will do things for which they are rewarded”, August 31.

In that respect I don’t understand why workers would be lesser humans and not so only do things for which they are rewarded. If you want to have a better chance for adding some long term views why not appoint some savvy teenagers to the board. They are the ones who have to live the longest with their decisions, and they are who probably are by means of social media those most held accountable to their peers.

If Senator Warren is really serious about fighting short termism, and is not only engaging in some redistribution profiteering, then she should be up in arms against the regulators’ risk weighted capital requirements for banks. These subsidize the access to bank credit of the safer present, and impose tariffs on the riskier future.

@PerKurowski