PBS NewsHour
ABOUT US  |  LOCAL TV LISTINGS    EMAIL   PRINT
TopicsVideoRecent ProgramsTeacher ResourcesThe Rundown: news blogSubscribe rss | podcast


REGION: North America
TOPIC: Business & Economy
PBS NewsHour
The Business Desk with Paul Solman
Not a blog but a "q-and-a" (pronounced "quanda"), this page is about the basics of economics. Its premise: there are no stupid q's. And if some a's seem dim, take heart: I can brighten them up in response to objections, corrections, refinements. Comments on posts feature yours, and my responses. Enough of you now frequent and query the quanda that I post most every day. Haven't seen your q yet? Send it again. All a's should be taken with a shaker of sodium chloride, if not a Lot's-wife's-worth. And speaking of salt, the mustache and "hair" in the photo has a lot less of that condiment, and rather more pepper, than can be seen on TV. Think of it as time travel.

« Previous Entry | Main | Next Entry »

How Does Executive Pay Compare Around the World?

Name: Robert Pleau
City & State: Mountain View, Calif.

boardroom; via Flickr

Question: How does U.S. executive compensation compare to their counterparts around the world, such as Japan, Europe, Russia, Turkey?

Paul Solman: I don't know what constitutes executive compensation in Russia, but compared to Japan, Europe, Turkey (Turkey?) and pretty much everywhere else, the United States has long been the world's notorious outlier. We covered the issue some years ago for the NewsHour in a series called Executive Excess. The stories may be worth watching: Part 1, Part II, Part III.

And finally, a one-on-one with GE's Jack Welch, in which I sort of chicken out of confronting him with the evidence from the other stories.

-- Posted May 15, 2009 | Comments ( ) | Permalink

TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: How Does Executive Pay Compare Around the World?.

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/mt4/mt-tb.cgi/1309

Comments

 

 

Archive

April 2012
Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30          
 

 
» See All Entries

Paul's Video Reports
Paul Solman on Twitter

NewsHour economic coverage is funded by a grant from: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The PBS NewsHour is Funded in part by: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Additional Foundation and Corporate Sponsors
Program
Support
From:
Copyright © 1996- MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. All Rights Reserved.