Labor economics from a free market perspective [[electronic resource] ] : employing the unemployable / / Walter Block

• Autore: Block Walter <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: xxiii, 393 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 331
• Soggetto topico: Labor economics; Wages; Industrial relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BlockWalter <1941->
• Note generali: With the exception of chapters 5, 17, and 20 this book consists of previously published articles of [the author's].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: I. Wage determination. 1. Promotion, turnover and preemptive wage offers / Walter Block and Robert A. Lawson. 2. Globalization and the concept of subsistence wages / Walter Block, Jerry Dauterive, and John Levendis. 3. Labor market disputes: a comment on Albert Rees' "Fairness in Wage Distribution" / Walter Block. 4. The discounted marginal value product-marginal value product controversy: a note / Walter Block -- II. Unions. Is it possible to reconcile unions with the libertarian legal code? / Walter Block. 6. Labor relations, unions and collective bargaining: a political economic analysis / Walter Block. 7. Labor union policies: gains or pains? / Jason Evans and Walter Block. 8. The yellow dog contract: bring it back! / Walter Block. 9. An economic and ethical analysis of unions / Walter Block. 10. Comment on Richard B. Freeman's "Labor Markets and Institutions in Economic Development" / Walter Block -- III. The minimum wage. 11. A primer on jobs and the jobless / Walter Block. 12. The minimum wage: does it really help workers? / Paul McCormick and Walter Block. 13. Delusions of rising wages / Walter Block. 14. The minimum wage once again / Walter Block. 15. Heritage stumbles on minimum wage / Walter Block. 16. The living wage: what's wrong? / Walter Block and William Barnett II. 17. Critique of the minimum wage petition / Walter Block -- IV. Immigration. 18. A libertarian case for free immigration / Walter Block. 19. Is there a right to immigration?: a libertarian perspective / Walter Block and Gene Callahan. 20. On immigration: reply to Hoppe / Anthony Gregory and Walter Block -- V. Redistributive justice. 21. On reparations to blacks for slavery / Walter Block. 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" / Walter Block and Guillermo Yeatts -- VI. Fringe benefits. 23. Comments on Thomason and Burton, Bruce and Atkins, Anderson and Meyer, and Green and Riddell: worker's compensation and unemployment insurance in the US and Canada / Walter Block. 24. Comment on Hum and Simpson: guaranteed annual unemployment / Gary M. Anderson and Walter Block -- VII. Other topics in labor economics. 25. The division of labor under homogeneity: a critique of Mises and Rothbard / Walter Block, Per Henrik Hansen and Peter G. Klein. 26. Academic tenure: an economic critique / Robert W. McGee and Walter E. Block. 27. Comment on Canice Prendergast's "A Theory of 'Yes men' " / Walter Block. 28. Cyberslacking, business ethics and managerial economics / Walter Block. 29. Paternalism in agricultural labor contracts in the US South: implications for the growth of the welfare state / Walter Block.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Labor economics from a free market perspective
• ISBN: 1-281-93841-6; 9786611938413; 981-279-079-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453161703321
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