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Are Chief Executives Overpaid?

By Deborah Hargreaves
Series: The Future of Capitalism
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Wages for most have stagnated, while the top 0.1% have seen pay skyrocket over 20 years. Deborah Hargreaves offers a hard-hitting analysis of how excessive chief executive pay destabilises the economy and erodes social cohesion. She debunks the self-justifying logic of bosses earning up to £70m a year and explores pragmatic solutions to the dysfunctional 'winner-takes-all' economy.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in economics, social justice, and contemporary debates about executive remuneration and inequality.

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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 destabilises 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, Are Chief Executives Overpaid? debunks the myths behind top pay and examines a range of pragmatic solutions.

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Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, praises Hargreaves as "trenchant and readable" in her expert critique of obscene top pay. Martin Wolf of The Financial Times highlights the book's value in exposing executive pay as economically damaging and socially destructive, undermining capitalism's legitimacy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509527809

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 140

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Deborah Hargreaves Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Non-Fiction Series: The Future of Capitalism

About the Author

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.

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