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# Winter 2010 

Vol. 30 No. 1 

Are Unions Good for America?

##### Articles 

#### [Editor’s Note ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/editors-note)

By [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

#### [Unions, Economic Freedom, and Growth ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-economic-freedom-growth)

By Randall G. Holcombe and [James D. Gwartney](https://www.cato.org/people/james-gwartney) 

#### [Unions, the Rule of Law, and Political Rent Seeking ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-rule-law-political-rent-seeking)

By Armand Thieblot 

#### [Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/why-project-labor-agreements-are-not-public-interest)

By David G. Tuerk 

#### [Unions and Discrimination ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-discrimination)

By Paul Moreno 

#### [Public Sector Unions and the Rising Costs of Employee Compensation ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/public-sector-unions-rising-costs-employee-compensation)

By [Chris Edwards](https://www.cato.org/people/chris-edwards) 

#### [Unions and the Decline of U.S. Cities ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-decline-us-cities)

By [Stephen J. K. Walters](https://www.cato.org/people/stephen-walters) 

#### [Prevailing Wage Laws: Public Interest or Special Interest Legislation? ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/prevailing-wage-laws-public-interest-or-special-interest-legislation)

By George C. Leef 

#### [The Effects of Teachers Unions on American Education ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/effects-teachers-unions-american-education)

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

#### [Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/right-work-laws-liberty-prosperity-quality-life)

By Richard K. Vedder 

#### [Unions, Protectionism, and U.S. Competitiveness ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-protectionism-us-competitiveness)

By [Daniel Griswold](https://www.cato.org/people/daniel-griswold) 

#### [Unions, the High-Wage Doctrine, and Employment ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unions-high-wage-doctrine-employment)

By Lowell Gallaway 

#### [Toward a Free-Market Union Law ](/cato-journal/winter-2010/toward-free-market-union-law)

By Charles W. Baird 

##### Book Review 

##### [*In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic* by David Wessell](/cato-journal/winter-2010/fed-we-trust-ben-bernankes-war-great-panic-david-wessell)

By [William Poole](https://www.cato.org/people/william-poole) 

##### [*Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy* by Arnold Kling](/cato-journal/winter-2010/unchecked-unbalanced-how-discrepancy-between-knowledge-power-caused)

By [Mark A. Calabria](https://www.cato.org/people/mark-calabria) 

##### [*The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools* by E.D. Hirsch Jr.](/cato-journal/winter-2010/making-americans-democracy-our-schools-ed-hirsch-jr)

By [Neal McCluskey](https://www.cato.org/people/neal-mccluskey) 

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