Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective:Employing the Unemployable

Walter Block
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Walter Block: Loyola University New Orleans, USA

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Abstract: Labor is the most important of the three traditional factors of production (land, labor and capital), accounting for some 75% of the GDP. It is therefore important to focus on issues of labor economics. In this book the approach taken will be that of the free market philosophy of libertarianism, the perspective that allows the maximum of freedom, consistent with the responsibility of all to respect the equal rights of all others.

Keywords: Labor; Unions; Economics; Wages; Race; Sex; Discrimination; Unemployment; Immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9789812705686
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Promotion, turnover and preemptive wage offers , pp 3-8

Walter Block and Robert A. Lawson

Ch 2 Globalization and the Concept of Subsistence Wages , pp 9-23

Walter Block, Jerry Dauterive and John Levendis

Ch 3 Labor Market Disputes: A Comment on Albert Rees' “Fairness in Wage Distribution” , pp 25-38

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Ch 4 The DMVP-MVP Controversy: A Note , pp 39-47

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Ch 5 Is it Possible to Reconcile Unions with the Libertarian Legal Code? , pp 51-65

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Ch 6 LABOR RELATIONS, UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: A POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS , pp 67-97

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Ch 7 Labour Union Policies: Gains or Pains? , pp 99-107

Jason Evans and Walter Block

Ch 8 The Yellow Dog Contract: Bring It Back! , pp 109-110

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Ch 9 An Economic and Ethical Analysis of Unions , pp 111-121

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Ch 10 Comment on Richard B. Freeman's “Labor markets and institutions in economic development” , pp 123-133

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Ch 11 A Primer on Jobs and the Jobless , pp 137-140

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Ch 12 THE MINIMUM WAGE: DOES IT REALLY HELP WORKERS? , pp 141-144

Paul McCormick and Walter Block

Ch 13 Delusions of rising wages , pp 145-145

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Ch 14 The Minimum Wage Once Again , pp 147-154

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Ch 15 Heritage Stumbles on Minimum Wage , pp 155-156

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Ch 16 The Living Wage: What's Wrong? , pp 157-158

Walter Block and William Barnett

Ch 17 Critique of Minimum Wage Petition , pp 159-172

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Ch 18 A LIBERTARIAN CASE FOR FREE IMMIGRATION , pp 175-194

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Ch 19 Is There a Right to Immigration?: A Libertarian Perspective , pp 195-220

Walter Block and Gene Callahan

Ch 20 On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe , pp 221-235

Anthony Gregory and Walter Block

Ch 21 On Reparations to Blacks for Slavery , pp 239-259

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Ch 22 THE ECONOMICS AND ETHICS OF LAND REFORM: A CRITIQUE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE'S “TOWARD A BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF LAND: THE CHALLENGE OF AGRARIAN REFORM” , pp 261-293

Walter Block and Guillermo Yeatts

Ch 23 Comments on Thomason and Burton, Bruce and Atkins, Anderson and Meyer, and Green and Riddell , pp 297-317

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Ch 24 Comment on Hum and Simpson , pp 319-334

Gary M. Anderson and Walter Block

Ch 25 The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard , pp 337-344

Walter Block, Per Henrik Hansen and Peter Klein

Ch 26 ACADEMIC TENURE: AN ECONOMIC CRITIQUE , pp 345-363

Robert McGee and Walter E. Block

Ch 27 COMMENT ON CANICE PRENDERGAST'S “A THEORY OF ‘YES MEN’” , pp 365-372

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Ch 28 Cyberslacking, Business Ethics and Managerial Economics , pp 373-379

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Ch 29 PATERNALISM IN AGRICULTURAL LABOR CONTRACTS IN THE U.S. SOUTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE WELFARE STATE , pp 381-393

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