All Posts Tagged With: "labor laws"
Unions Lose Respect
I have often argued that American labor unions enjoy much more respect than they deserve. In February the Pew Research Center released the results of its latest nationwide survey of public opinion regarding labor unions. It seems that, at last, labor unions are suffering significant losses of respect. Table 1 shows the percentage of Americans [...]
29Jun2010 | Charles W. Baird | 8 comments | ContinuedLabor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable
Notwithstanding its title, this is not a textbook on labor economics. Rather, as the author stipulates in the introduction, it is “an ideological book.” It is a collection of papers written, sometimes with coauthors, by Block during the 1990s and 2000s on various labor-related topics. Of the 29 chapters, all but three were first published [...]
21May2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – September 2008
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton Reviewed by David K. Levine
- Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition by David Lewis Schaefer Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan
- Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws by Kimberly A. Strassel, Celeste Colgan, and John C. Goodman Reviewed by Karen Y. Palasek
What Is Going on in France?
Pierre Garello is a professor of economics at Aix-Marseille University, France. It is sometime painful for a liberal—I will be using that word in its old, continental, sense—to live in France, especially in southern France: so much light, so many beauties given by nature, and at the same time so much wealth wasted! Riots; strikes; blockage [...]
1Oct2006 | Pierre Garello | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2006
- Reviving the Invisible Hand: The
Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Deepak Lal Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Laws of Fear
by Cass Sunstein Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
Empire’s
Slaves
by Adam Hochschild Reviewed by Becky Akers
- Why Men Earn More
by Warren Farrell Reviewed by George C. Leef
Why the Poor Need Property Rights
Early in the morning the streets below my flat would become a beehive of activity. Small stands were scattered everywhere, cramming every available inch of sidewalk. Small bundles of bananas, packets of tomatoes, or potatoes were for sale. Newspaper vendors grabbed the busy corners. Hawkers with every imaginable product had set up business. As the [...]
1Oct2002 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedOnly One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Most black people believe that history demonstrates the necessity of labor-market regulations on their behalf. The message of this book is that the one place of redress blacks (and other minorities) had against discriminatory state and federal economic regulations was the court system guided by the principles of what came to be called, and later [...]
1Sep2002 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerican Labor Law–Bad and Still Getting Worse
One of the great blunders of American history was the New Deal decision to institute a legal framework for labor relations that did away with the older common law rules of contract, property, and tort that applied equally to all parties, replacing them with a highly coercive, asymmetrical scheme intended to help labor union leaders [...]
1May1997 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | Continued-
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