All Posts Tagged With: "entrepreneurial activity"
Worker Freedom in Peril
The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) recently published its 2007 Index of Worker Freedom (IWF).The index ranks each of the 50 states on the basis of ten variables that affect the freedom of workers. “Freedom” is defined properly as the absence of interferences with individual worker choices. After explaining the ten variables used and identifying [...]
1Oct2008 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedLosing the Law: From Shield to Weapon
William Anderson is an assistant professor of economics at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland. Candice Jackson is litigation counsel for Judicial Watch. In recent years lawmakers and enforcers have increasingly criminalized business behavior. From the prosecution of Michael Milken and other Wall Street figures in the 1980s to the indictment of Martha Stewart in 2003, [...]
1May2004 | and William L. Anderson | 0 comments | Continued-
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