Archive for Charles Baird
Stealing for Union Bosses
Charles Baird is a professor of economics emeritus at California State University at East Bay.
H. L. Mencken opined that “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” The November 2006 congressional elections are an excellent example of Mencken’s proposition.
The attempts by the 110th Congress to steal property and other rights from [...]
Hayek on Closed Shops and Yellow Dogs
Charles Baird is a professor of economics and the director of the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University at East Bay .
In my December 2006 column I discussed some of Hayek’s classical-liberal views on the rule of law and labor unions. In brief, Hayek approved of voluntary unionism based on [...]
Unions Lose Again in Oklahoma
In my February column I celebrated Oklahoma’s new right-to-work (RTW) law, which was adopted by voters 54-46 percent in September last year. A RTW law prevents unions with monopoly-representation privileges from forcing nonmembers to pay for representation they do not want. Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) authorizes states to enact such [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
