Financial Times: " The minimum wage wars are heating up : A new study fails to prove its claim that Seattle wage floor hurts workers...

In Jidda, according to the New York Times today.  So the story about the now deposed 57-year old former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and for...

There has been a lot of very good critique of the methodology of the University of Washington's study of the minimum wage increase in Se...

Bear with me.  I’m going to try out an idea that may be completely off-base, or maybe not.  I would very much like to hear what you think of...

Yeah, I know, Marx wrote three volumes on this, and in 2014 Piketty published in English a more than 700 page book on it that ended up on th...

Words cannot describe the torment experienced by the data before they confessed what the University of Washington team got them to confess....

As labor market mavens all know by now, the University of Washington team chosen by the city of Seattle to evaluate its minimum wage law has...

Richard Layard, How to Beat Unemployment, 1986: "If you ask the man in the street (not Wall Street) what has caused our unemployment...

Economie. L’impossible partage du travail: histoire d’un (vieux) débat Par Michel Husson   Les économistes dominants pensent que leur «...

Remember when Say's Law immediately  sank without trace  once Keynes debunked it? Here was Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley Marshall in ...

Unionists are not theorists; unionism is an eminently practical thing. -- Robert F. Hoxie  Theory and trade unionism are almost contradic...

On June 1, the California Senate passed a health care bill that has folks hopeful: A proposal to adopt a single-payer healthcare system fo...

From Robert F. Hoxie,  Trade Unionism in the United States , 1917: There is much scorn of unionists by economists and employers because o...

A not unexpected event has just been announced: 31-year old Prince Muhammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Sa'ud has been elevated from Dep...

Probably I should not post something like this on Juneteenth, but I have become increasingly frustrated by what seems to me a very misguided...