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Comment on Richard B. Freeman’s “Labor markets and institutions in economic development”
Walter BlockFreeman criticizes the economics profession on the ground that it has improperly accepted the philosophy of laissez‐faire capitalism in five different realms: economic…
Markets as a system of social contracts
Masudul Alam ChoudhuryExamines critically traditional economic paradigms as well as those given by Hayek and Buchanan on markets with constitutional contracts in order to contrast them with yet another…
Legal cartels and social contracts: Lessons from the economic foundations of government
Franklin G. MixonA cartel is a group of oligopolistic firms that agree to act collectively as a monopolist in some industry or economic enterprise. Discusses the social contract of the Southwest…
Religion and earnings: evidence from the NLS Youth Cohort
Todd P. SteenDoes religious and denominational background still affect earnings and human capital investment? Several earlier studies suggest that they do, but all of these previous studies…
A modest proposal for preventing the children of the poor from being a burden to their parents and making them beneficial to the public: Plagiarized from Jonathan Swift and modernized by Y.S. Brenner
Y.S. BrennerPlagiarizes Jonathan Swift to produce a tongue‐in‐cheek proposal for the relief of the burden of children to the poor and so create benefits for the state. Claims satirically that…
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- Professor Terence Garrett