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Re:Jaw-Dropping Compensation: College Professors vs. College... by dpapathanasiou on Monday December 10, 2007 @05:19PM (#87977)
Well, this Economist story explains why executive pay is unlikely to decline: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...
Re:Jaw-Dropping Compensation: College Professors vs. College... by davidw on Monday December 10, 2007 @05:38PM (#87985)
They seem to go back and forth, don't they?:-)

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...

I certainly wouldn't favor any broad laws meddling in that kind of thing, but a tweak here and there to open things up to shareholders probably wouldn't hurt.