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The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law is Paralyzing the American Workplace
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Free Press
Author: Walter K. Olson
Country: United States

How the EEOC and other bureaucratic organizations make it difficult to hire, retain or fire employees based on their potential and performance. Hardcover, 1997, 367p., $12.25 from Laissez Faire Books.

The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Young America's Foundation
Author: Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
Country: United States

One of the classic refutations of false historical claims that the corruption of "big business" required correction by the state (Paperback, 1991, 169 p., Laissez Faire price $9.95).

Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776–1970
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Gregory S Alexander
Country: United States

"The basic argument of this book is that this commodity theory of property is only half right. Property-as-commodity is one-half of a dialectic that American legal writing has continuously expressed from the nation's beginning to the recent past." Alexander argues for a competing view of property in the American legal tradition that he labels "property as propriety." (1997)

U.S. by the Numbers: Figuring What's Left, Right, and Wrong With America State by State
Source: Amazon.com/Capital Books
Author: Raymond J. Keating and Thomas N. Edmonds
Country: United States

"This book will be the bible for elected officials who are serious about nurturing an environment favorable to economic opportunity," writes Karen Kerrigan, chairman of the Small Business Survival Committee. (948 pp., 2000, Amazon price: $35)

Living wage policy: the basics
Source: Employment Policies Institute/Amazon.com
Country: United States

"[A]n easy to read, comprehensive review of all existing living wage research. The book covers the politics and players behind the current movement as well as the economics of mandated wage hikes." 96pp, $20.00 (2000)

What's Yours is Mine
Source: Cato Institute/LFB
Author: Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr
Country: United States

A short but utterly convincing case against "infrastructure socialism". (Pub. 5/03; trade paper; 131 pp.; LFB price $10.35)

A Living Wage: lessons in economic justice
Source: Acton Institute
Author: John Barry, Samuel Gregg, Michel Therrien
Country: United States

"This paper demonstrates that the Church's teaching does not necessarily lend support to a legislated minimum wage. Indeed, prudent attention to economic principles shows that minimum wage laws are often harmful to the poor, the very people for whom such policies are implemented." ($6.00, 63pp)(2001)

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