Are Chief Executives Overpaid?

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.

Keywords: Chief executives; CEO; CEO pay; top pay; corporate pay; corporate governance; High Pay Centre; political economy; public policy economics; finance; inequality; greed; fat cats, Political Issues & Behavior, Public Policy Economics & Finance, Political Issues & Behavior, Public Policy Economics & Finance