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Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay (by catoinstitutevideo)

http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8148

Steven Neil Kaplan, the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, will look at executive compensation. He holds a master’s degree in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard College and a PhD in business economics from Harvard University. Kaplan conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. He has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee about his research. Kaplan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics.

foreignaffairsmagazine:

Is the euro a failed experiment, or can it yet survive? Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Martin Feldstein, the Harvard Professor and author of “The Failure of the Euro.” Feldstein explains the consequences of the European debt crisis, noting the differences among Greece, Italy, Spain, and others.

There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhD’s | Gawker

joswilson81:

There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhD’s | Gawker

mattmeetstheinternet:

notforpublicconsumption:

There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don’t require their level of education. Why?

The data comes from a the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and can be seen here in handy, depressing chart form:

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socialismartnature

At least they found work with a PHD. Locally I am to educated. I can’t even get a job at MacDonelds. Only work I can get is goverment and I refuse to work for it. It would feel like I was working for the mob.