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Daily Archive for August 8th, 2010

Labor as Capital

Arnold Kling has written a lot about how labor is very much like capital in the new economy. But he has forgotten to add that government policy also makes L look a lot more like K: And even if the economic outlook were more encouraging, increasing revenues is always uncertain and expensive. As much as […]

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NAFTA Benefited Mexican Women

I’d like to hear protectionist politicians on the stump this Fall arguing that, “we need to make trade fairer, we need to roll back NAFTA in order to put Mexican women back in their place “save” American jobs . … we examine the impact of trade liberalization policies on women’s labor market outcomes in Mexico. […]

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