In Defense of Cheap Labor
The protesters and the Clinton administration are demanding higher wages in the developing world, but this would be the kiss of death for economies around the world.
The protesters and the Clinton administration are demanding higher wages in the developing world, but this would be the kiss of death for economies around the world.
The real meaning of Thanksgiving: Plymouth was a socialist colony and it failed miserably.
Edmund S. Phelps is no right-wing extremist. Quite the contrary, he stands at the center of Keynesian orthodoxy in economics.
Do natural disasters really produce a boost in production? (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
A seminar with J. Guido Hülsmann focuses on price and value theory, and elucidates fundamental differences between two schools of thought. (A report by James Yohe)
Imagine how the world would work without private property and market prices. Citing Mises, Investors Business Daily rightly says the result would be chaos.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 trampled on the rights of states to regulate their own labor markets, by overturning local laws enacted to protect women from working long hours, working at night, lifting heavy objects, and working during pregnancy. In addition, the 1963 law prohibited employers and employees from voluntarily agreeing to separate pay scales for men and women.
Gene Epstein explains what's wrong with today's most popular economics texts.