All Posts Tagged With: "Upton Sinclair"
Henry Ford, Upton Sinclair, and Limits on Consumer Choice
Richard Coffman and Ashley Lyman are associate professors of economics at the University of Idaho. Early in the twentieth century two prominent Americans, one a capitalist, the other a socialist, enunciated surprisingly similar views on the relationship between product differentiation and consumer welfare. The capitalist, Henry Ford, had revolutionized the young automobile industry, using mass-production [...]
1Feb2003 | and Richard B. Coffman | 1 comment | ContinuedWe Can Do Better than Government Inspection of Meat
Last year’s news reports of tainted beef focused public attention on the safety of the meat supply. In August 1997, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman forced Hudson Foods to recall 25 million pounds of hamburger meat produced at the firm’s state-of-the-art plant in Nebraska. The nation’s largest beef recall occurred after several Colorado consumers became [...]
1May1998 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 1 comment | Continued-
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