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ISSN 0273-3072

Current Issue

Volume 30 Number 1, Winter 2010

Are Unions Good for America?

James A. Dorn
Editor's Note
(PDF, 3 pp., 62Kb)

Randall G. Holcombe and James D. Gwartney
Unions, Economic Freedom, and Growth
(PDF, 22 pp., 182Kb)

Armand Thieblot
Unions, the Rule of Law, and Political Rent Seeking
(PDF, 22 pp., 191Kb)

David G. Tuerck
Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest
(PDF, 21 pp., 182Kb)

Paul Moreno
Unions and Discrimination
(PDF, 19 pp., 173Kb)

Chris Edwards
Public Sector Unions and the Rising Costs of Employee Compensation
(PDF, 29 pp., 303Kb)

Stephen J. K. Walters
Unions and the Decline of U.S. Cities
(PDF, 19 pp., 222Kb)

George C. Leef
Prevailing Wage Laws: Public Interest or Special Interest Legislation?
(PDF, 18 pp., 165Kb)

Andrew J. Coulson
The Effects of Teachers Unions on American Education
(PDF, 16 pp., 240Kb)

Richard Vedder
Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life
(PDF, 10 pp., 106Kb)

Daniel Griswold
Unions, Protectionism, and U.S. Competitiveness
(PDF, 16 pp., 172Kb)

Lowell E. Gallaway
Unions, the High-Wage Doctrine, and Employment
(PDF, 17 pp., 160Kb)

Charles W. Baird
Toward a Free-Market Union Law
(PDF, 20 pp., 176Kb)

Book Reviews

In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel
Reviewed by William Poole
(PDF, 8 pp., 97Kb)

Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
by Arnold Kling
Reviewed by Mark Calabria
(PDF, 4 pp., 71Kb)

The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Reviewed by Neal McCluskey
(PDF, 5 pp., 78Kb)



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