The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard

Walter Block, Per Henrik Hansen and Peter Klein

Chapter 25 in Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective:Employing the Unemployable, 2008, pp 337-344 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractEven the most passionate defenders of free trade, such as Mises and Rothbard, claim that trade cannot occur under conditions of strict homogeneity of land, labor, and capital. We show that specialization, trade, and the division of labor can emerge even when resources are initially homogenous, due to “natural heterogeneity,” economies of scale, and learning.

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