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October 7, 2020

 

In your web browser, do a search on "market wage definition". This is what I get:

 

 

 

Now click on the "Reference" at the lower left: Market Wage vs. Fair Wage. You are taken to an essay I wrote at least 10 years ago. I discovered this because each month, Google emails me what it calls "Your [September] Search performance for http://steveharrypublicpolicy.com." The report includes a list of the queries that bring people to this website. This is from the October 6 report:

 

"Market Wage vs. Fair Wage" is one of 16 essays I wrote sometime around 2010 presenting The Case Against Collective Bargaining. This was so long ago that it hadn't yet occurred to me to put my name or the date on the essays.

 

I can assure you that I am no scholar. The extent of my education is a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Michigan State University, where I graduated in 1966. While there, I took maybe two economics courses. So I wonder if Google or Yahoo or whoever has any idea that the authority they are citing is just a retired state employee who thinks a lot about public policy. And writes.

 

Not that those essays aren't brilliant. Here they are:

Unions are Killing Michigan
The Wagner Act
What Economists Think
Why the Market Wage is Better for Everyone
The Illogic of Collective Bargaining
Market Wage vs. Fair Wage
Imagining a Free Labor Market
Rights and Freedom
Destruction of the Middle Class
Job Security
Collective Bargaining and Unemployment
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
Social Costs of Collective Bargaining
Ending Fringe Benefits
Democrats and Unions
Collective Bargaining in Government

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