See also Crystal Graef, In Search of Excess. Graef was an executive compensation consultant who decided that things had got out of hand. --jks
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Edward E Skiba wrote:
>
> JayHecht at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Does anyone have a data source (e.g, web site, publication) for looking at the
> > relative pay of US execs vs. G-7?
>
> I have read two good books which address this subject. First is
> Edward N. Luttwak "The Endangered American Dream" (1993, Toutchstone ed.)
> especially pages 165-175. Luttwak is a well-known right-wing warmonger but
> he addressed this subject before it was widely recognized on the left.
> Incidentally, he lost face with his Pentagon buddies when he appeared on CNN
> during the Gulf War and loudly predicted 10,000 Allied causalties would
> occur during the ground invasion of Iraq.
>
> For more recent info check out Andrew Hacker's "Money: Who Has How
> Much and Why" (1997, Scribner) an all-around excellent discussion of this
> and related concepts. RHIP--Rank Has Its Privileges--especially under the
> US varient of capitalism.
>
> In struggle--ED