Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102) and index.

Compensation committees should use reason to limit executives' salaries / Mark W. Olson -- Executives must be paid well in order to attract top talent / Dominic Basulto -- CEOs want to hide the gap between worker pay and their own / Sam Pizzigati -- Executive compensation should be tied to company profitability / Clive Crook -- Executive compensation should not be tied to company profitability / Robert P. Murphy -- Executives' high salaries should be capped / Dean Calbreath -- Executives' high salaries should not be capped / Steven Pearlstein -- Government should regulate private-sector executive compensation / Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati -- Government should not regulate private-sector executive compensation / Mitchell Schnurman -- Shareholders must be active in determining executive compensation / Fred G. Steingraber and Karen Kane -- Executives put profits before good business decisions / Les Leopold -- Government regulation is the wrong way to fix executive compensation -- Edward E. Lawler, III.