Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades. In 1985 US Representative Henry Waxman, chair of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, accused the pharmaceutical industry of “gouging the American public” with “outrageous” price increases, driven by “greed on a massive scale.” Despite many Congressional inquiries since […]
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Comment on the SEC Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins - 14 June 2017
In this comment, we explain our objections to the SEC’s current formulation of the Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule on each of three grounds: 1) the erroneous estimation of CEO pay; 2) the unclear specification of the “median” worker; and 3) the risk of normalizing a pay ratio that is far too high. Then we present […]
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