Adam Smith’s Rubbish Bin (TM)
Professors Bill Keep and Nancy Lasher defend the benefits of competitive markets while exposing business behaviors that just might make Adam Smith turnover in his grave. As a reminder, Smith was the 18th century philosopher whose theory of supply and demand gave us the market economy
Adam Smith’s Rubbish Bin (TM)
The 1,085% Increase in CEO Pay: A Problem of Too Many Zeros
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BKNL Productions LLC
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Season 1
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Episode 13
In the episode we explore CEO Pay - misaligned from performance and multiples above CEO pay of comparable non-US companies. From 1978 to 2023, CEO pay increased by 1,085%. During that span of time average worker pay increased 24%. By 2023 the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay reached 290:1. The increased in CEO pay corresponds with the increasing share of wealth of the top .1% of households and growing income inequality.