Deborah Hargreaves 
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.

Table of Content

* Contents

* Foreword

* Chapter 1: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

* Chapter 2: Just Deserts?

* Chapter 3: Why Top Pay Matters

* Chapter 4: Corporate Governance Fights a Losing Battle

* Chapter 5: What Can Be Done?

* Conclusion

* Notes

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.