Production Theory
The State Against Economic Law: the Case of Minimum Wage Legislation
When it comes to matters such as the theory of evolution and stem-cell research, so-called liberals—i.e., socialists who have stolen the name that
Reaping Cannon Fodder
This means that employment among the young, the inexperienced, and unskilled will decline with the institution of a higher minimum wage.
Does Business Need Washington to Manage Wages?
What's truly ironic is that this alleged benefit is reduced when the government forces every business to raise wages.
Overproduction and Underconsumption Fallacies
In a letter to Mill, dated July 27, 1820, Ricardo refers to the doctrine that a general overproduction is impossible and that capital can never increase too rapidly, as "Say's and your doctrine of accumulation."
Opportunity Village and Fewer Opportunities
People voting for the minimum wage indulge a fantasy that they are helping the hard-working down-on-his-luck adult minimum-wage earner who is struggling to support a family. Instead they are preventing the sweet, earnest but maybe-a-little slow kid living down the block from getting that first job, because his output does not reach the economic level required by a wage that government has set too high.
Has Card Been Misinterpreted?
Here’s an interesting excerpt from an interview with David Card by the Mi
A Hit Man Confesses
Perkins called his job that of an economic hit man — the person who makes the initial case for the infrastructure development with such optimistic (and purposely misleading) biases that they become deals that cannot be refused.
