The Living Wage

Donald Stabile

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be paid a living wage.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781848441972
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781848441972.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eebook:13337

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().