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Subject: Wages-and-Unemployment: 30 records

Why Wages Rise

F.A. Harper Updated 2/24/2012

F.A. Harper Why Wages Rise...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard Updated 1/12/2012

Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Labor Policy of the Free Society, The

Sylvester Petro Updated 1/2/2012

Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital...
The Theory of Collective Bargaining

William H. Hutt Updated 12/26/2011

In 1930, W.H. Hutt demonstrated several spectacular points: labor unions cannot lift wages overall; their earnings come at the expense of the consumer; their effect is to cartelize business and reduce free competition to the detriment of everyone. He...
The Economics of Illusion

L. Albert Hahn Updated 10/7/2011

L. Albert Hahn was one of the most highly regarded economists and bankers in Germany before World War II, but he was unknown in the United States until this translation of The Economics of Illusion appeared in 1949. He immigrated to the United States...
Money, Method, and the Market Process

Ludwig von Mises Updated 9/29/2011

Edited by Richard M. Ebeling This volume might be called the Mises Reader, for it contains a wide sampling of his academic essays on money, trade, and economic systems. Some of them, like "Observations on the Cooperative Movement,"...
Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers

Charles Holt Carroll Updated 9/20/2011

Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are all collected here, in The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers. Little is known of Charles Holt Car...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan Updated 9/16/2011

The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
Rehabilitation of Say's Law, A

William H. Hutt Updated 9/9/2011

With A Rehabilitation of Say's Law, Professor William H. Hutt produced a magnificent work that Austrians would love to claim as one of their own, but that Hutt himself viewed as thoroughly classical in nature. The topic addressed here is Say&...
Tiger by the Tail

Friedrich A. Hayek Updated 8/8/2011

F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning would ever captivate governments, so he focused on differ...
The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays

Richard M. Ebeling Updated 7/13/2011

New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of the business cycle, but come about through manipulation of money and credit by central banks. In this m...
Failure of the 'New Economics'

Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/15/2011

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T...
The Concise Guide To Economics

Jim Cox Updated 2/9/2011

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for...
The Return to Laisser Faire

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest J. P. Benn The Return To Laisser Faire...
The State, The Enemy

Sir Ernest Benn Updated 6/5/2009

Ernest Benn The State, The Enemy...
Protection or Free Trade: An Examination of the Tariff Question, with Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor

Henry George Updated 10/5/2007

Henry George Protection and Free Trade (1886)...
"Sticky Wages, Efficiency Wages, and Market Process"

Don Bellante Updated 1/15/2007

G.R. Steele Hayek's Money Economy: The Dynamics of Competitive Equilibrium and Socio-Economic Order Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Contributions of W. H. Hutt, The"

John B. Egger Updated 1/15/2007

G.R. Steele Hayek's Money Economy: The Dynamics of Competitive Equilibrium and Socio-Economic Order Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Wages, Prices, and Employment: Von Mises and the Progressives"

Lowell Gallaway Updated 1/15/2007

Gallaway and Vedder Wages, Prices, and Employment: Von Mises and the Progressives Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Trade Unions: The Private Use of Coercive Power"

William H. Hutt Updated 1/15/2007

W.H. Hutt Trade Unions: The Private Use of Coercive Power Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Some Austrian Perspectives on Keynesian Fiscal Policy and the Recovery in the Thirties"

Gene Smiley Updated 1/15/2007

Gene Smiley Some Austrian Perspectives on Keynesian Fiscal Policy and the Recover in the Thirties Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in...
"Economic Analysis of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, the Wagner Act, and the Labor Representation Industry"

Morgan O. Reynolds Updated 1/15/2007

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Consumption of Capital in Austria, The

Fritz Machlup Updated 1/15/2007

F.W. Taussig The Tariff History of the United States NT...
"Reisman on Capitalism"

George Reisman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Millennium Doom. Fallacies about the End of Work by Mauricio Rojas"

Jörg Guido Hülsmann Updated 1/15/2007

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"The Fraud of Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy"

Lowell Gallaway Updated 1/15/2007

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"Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860," by Robert A. Margo

Richard Vedder Updated 1/15/2007

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"Establishing Government Accountability in the Anti-Sweat Shop Campaign: Toward a Logical, Activist Approach to Improving the Working Conditions of the Poor"

Ellennita Muetze Hellmer Updated 1/15/2007

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"Freedom is Slavery: Laissez-Faire Capitalism is Government Intervention: A Critique of Kevin Carson's <em>Studies in Mutualist Political Economy</em>"

George Reisman Updated 1/15/2007

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"Carson's Rejoinders"

Kevin A. Carson Updated 1/15/2007

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