Posted by
Andrews on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:59:23 PM
I have been looking through my old essays and I think I have a single topic which deserves a lengthy, comprehensive essay. Recently I have written quite a bit about wages, employment law and the free market, and I think it would be best if I took all of that information and put it together in one place. There is a lot to cover, how the free market ensures fair wages and safe conditions, how supposed "exploitation" is normally nothing of the kind, how unions fail to achieve those things with which they are credited, how wages are set, and so on. There is a lot to cover, but it would be nice to have it all in one place. (See "
Exploited Labor", "
Capital Investment", "
Exploiting Workers?", "
Fairness and the Free Market", "
A
Little More On CEO Salaries", "
In
Praise
of
Contracts", "
Greed
Versus
Evil", "
Stupid Quotes of the Day (January 26, 2011)", "
Stupid Quote of the Day (January 3, 2012)", "
Why Do They Earn So Much For Playing a Game?", "
The Great "What If?" - Advertising, Gullibility, Education, Capitalism and Socialism", "
Third Best Economy", "
"Disparities of Wealth"", "
Misunderstanding the Market", "
One-Way Evidence", "
Pro-Labor Cannibalism, A Look At The Union Food Chain", "
The Cart Before the Horse, or, Some Thoughts on the Iron Law of Wages", "
Best of the Web Makes A Small Error", "
The Welfare Death Spiral","
The Harm of Closed Shops and Collective Bargaining", , "
Mistaken Perceptions of the Industrial Age", "
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution")
Following that, I think I will do something I have considered for some time and write a single post covering all my old writing on bureaucracy. (See "
The Bureaucratic Mind", "
Bureaucratic Management", "
The
Inevitability of Bureaucratic Management in Government Enterprises", "
Organizations
as Filters", "
Bureaucracy and Arbitrary Power", "
Somewhat Off-Topic Rants", "
Bureaucracy Revisited", "
How
the
Government
Corrupts
Relationships", "
Bureaucratic Management and Self-Policing", "
Inflexibility and Bureaucracy", "
In The Most Favorable Light", "
With Good Intentions", "
Grow or Die, The Inevitable Expansion of Everything", "
Fear Driven Enterprises", "
Adaptability and Government", "
The Wrong Solution to Bureaucracy", "
Best Practices and Resistance to Change, Bureaucracy and the Free Market", "
Stupid Quote of the Day (January 3, 2012)")
I am not sure if there will be any other comprehensive essays following those two, but those two topics have been discussed in so many small essays, it seems necessary to gather all my thoughts into one place.