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December 2, 2014
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Open Immigration: Yea & Nay
Amazon Extensive immigration restrictions are an attempt by the U.S. government to centrally manage the demographics, labor market, and culture of the United States instead of letting those facets of our society develop naturally – as they have throughout most …
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 1, 2006
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The Fallacy Of Campaign Finance Reform
About the Book At first glance, campaign finance reform looks like a good idea. McCain-Feingold, for instance, regulates campaigns by prohibiting national political parties from accepting soft money contributions from corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals. But are such …
By John Samples
April 22, 2025
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Crushing Capitalism
Cato Store Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org Have you heard this narrative? The middle class has been hollowed out because of an overreliance on free markets. Americans can’t compete with low-cost labor and imports, so all the …
By Norbert Michel
January 1, 1989
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Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service
… In this volume Ohio University economist Douglas K. Adie details the Postal Service’s failings — an inability to innovate, soaring labor costs, huge deficits, chronic inefficiency, and declining service standards — and contends that ending its monopoly over first‐class mail …
By Douglas K. Adie
May 23, 2017
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Economics and Free Markets: An Introduction
… founded, concepts such as subjective value and gains from trade, scarcity and opportunity cost, thinking at the margin, division of labor, and comparative advantage. It then introduces the foundational theory with which we understand how market prices emerge and change …
By Howard Baetjer Jr.
December 15, 2022
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Empowering the New American Worker
… American worker and promised to fix it. Unfortunately, the most common “pro‐worker” policies today—heavy on government intervention in labor, trade, or other markets—suffer from critical flaws. They overlook the numerous laws and regulations that distort markets, harm …
By Scott Lincicome
November 2, 2012
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The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age
… an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and current director of the Washington, DC office of the Objectivist Center. He is an expert on the regulation of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, labor, space and transportation and on state and international regulatory comparisons.
By Edward L. Hudgins
June 14, 1996
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Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience
… intervention specific to oil and gas, it also offers a summary and analysis of much non specific intervention such as labor market regulation, securities regulation, and the regulation and subsidization of roadways, waterways, railroads, and trucking. Environmental regulation and antitrust …
By Robert L. Bradley Jr.
September 11, 1989
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South Africa’s War against Capitalism
… some of South Africa’s legal institutions, particularly its racially discriminatory laws, and traces the historical forces behind racially discriminatory labor law. Subsequent chapters apply standard economic analysis to apartheid in business and the labor market and consider market challenges …
By Walter E. Williams
December 1, 1997
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Freedom to Trade: Refuting the New Protectionism
… an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and current director of the Washington, DC office of the Objectivist Center. He is an expert on the regulation of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, labor, space and transportation and on state and international regulatory comparisons.
By Edward L. Hudgins
September 25, 2003
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In Defense of Global Capitalism
… this book takes on the tough issues—economic growth, freedom vs. equality, free trade and fair trade, international debt, child labor, cultural imperialism—and concludes that free-market capitalism is the best route out of global poverty. What Others Have …
By Johan Norberg
January 1, 1999
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What to Do When You Don’t Want to Call The Cops: A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment
… disruptions that can be minimized by understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the workplace, and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in such male‐dominated fields as construction, engineering, business, and medicine to shed light on the …
By Joan Kennedy Taylor
January 1, 1995
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Simple Rules for a Complex World
… must compensate the owner. For Epstein, those “simple rules” subsume most conflicts. He shows how they apply to the environment, labor relations, product liability, employment discrimination, and redistribution of wealth. Observance of Epstein’s rules would invalidate most of the …
By Richard A. Epstein
June 18, 2001
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Economic Freedom of the World: 2001 Annual Report
… professor of economics and policy sciences at Florida State University. He was an expert on such economic issues as taxation, labor policy, and the economic analysis of government. He was coauthor of What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity …
By James D. Gwartney, Robert A. Lawson, Walter Park, & Charles Skipton
September 1, 2000
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Mail @ the Millennium: Will the Postal Service Go Private?
… its dangerous forays into cyberspace. The second section considers the changing structure of the mail market, including a look at labor problems, fatal flaws with the organization of the USPS, and the probable consequences of competition. The third section explores …
By Edward L. Hudgins