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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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It’s Not Just Profit Wrecking American Healthcare
A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it
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The Moral Burden on Economists
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A Public Comment on the SEC Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
In this comment, we explain our objections to the SEC’s current formulation of the Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule on each of three grounds: the erroneous estimation of CEO pay; the unclear specification of the “median” worker; and the risk of normalizing a pay ratio that is far too high. Then we present the latest data on the remuneration of the 500 highest-paid CEOs in the United States, demonstrating the way in which the SEC’s measure of CEO pay that enters into the CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio tends to systematically underestimate actual executive pay.