Are Chief Executives Overpaid?

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2779-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza. Top company bosses take home in several days as much as most people earn in a whole year.

In this hard-hitting book, Deborah Hargreaves explains why pay for the top 0.1% has sky-rocketed in the past 20 years. She gives a devastating account of how it has created a vicious circle that destabilizes our economy and undermines social cohesion, demolishing the twisted logic of the chief executives who say: ‘I’m worth it’, when that means raking in £70m a year.

A rigorous exposé of the dysfunctional nature of our ‘winner-takes-all’ economy, this book debunks the myths behind top pay and examines a range of pragmatic solutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hargreaves, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword vi

1 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 1

2 Just Deserts? 28

3 Why Top Pay Matters 55

4 Corporate Governance Fights a Losing Battle 76

5 What Can Be Done? 95

Conclusion 124

Notes 128

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Hargreaves is former business editor of the Guardian and a founder and director of the High Pay Centre, an independent think-tank that monitors executive pay.