Are Chief Executives Overpaid? Hargreaves Paperback Polity Press 9781509527809

Polity Press

Are Chief Executives Overpaid?\n\nDeborah Hargreaves (Author)\n\n9781509527809, Polity Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 5 October 2018\n\n140 pages\n19 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm, 0.159 kg\n\n\""Nothing is so politically alienating as the way society has lost control over obscene top pay. No-one is as trenchant \u2013 and readable \u2013 as Deborah Hargreaves in her expert analysis.\""\n\u2014Polly Toynbee, The Guardian \n\""In her extremely valuable book, Deborah Hargreaves demonstrates that the explosion in executive pay overwhelmingly reflects rent extraction. That is economically damaging, because performance-related pay encourages poor decision-making, and socially destructive, because it undermines the legitimacy of capitalism.\"" \n\u2014Martin Wolf, The Financial Times\n\nWages 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. \n\nIn this hard-hitting ]