Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

Author: Robert L. Schuettinger.

Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 161016525X

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The Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic results. It covers the ancient world, the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval Europe, the first centuries of the U.S. and Canada, the French Revolution, the 19th century, World Wars I and II, the Nazis, the Soviets, postwar rent control, and the 1970s. It also includes a very helpful conclusion spelling out the theory of wage and price controls. This book is a treasure, and super entertaining!

Living Wages Around the World
Living Wages Around the World

Author: Richard Anker

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1786431467

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This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.

Minimum Wages
Minimum Wages

Author: David Neumark

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0262141027

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A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.

The Structure of Wages
The Structure of Wages

Author: Edward P. Lazear

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0226470512

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The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first effort to examine linked employer-employee data across countries, The Structure of Wages:An International Comparison analyzes labor trends and their institutional background in the United States and eight European countries. A distinguished team of contributors reveal how a rising wage variance rewards star employees at a higher rate than ever before, how talent becomes concentrated in a few firms over time, and how outside market conditions affect wages in the twenty-first century. From a comparative perspective that examines wage and income differences within and between countries such as Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands, this volume will be required reading for economists and those working in industrial organization.

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

Author: National Council on Economic Education

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781561834334

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This essential guide for curriculum developers, administrators, teachers, and education and economics professors, the standards were developed to provide a framework and benchmarks for the teaching of economics to our nation's children.