Dean Baker Archives

August 1

A Persistent Case of Intellectual Hypocrisy

Forced-Unionism Apologists Back ‘Completely-One Sided’ Labor Laws (Click here to download the June 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Apologists for monopolistic unionism continue today to make the same “freedom of contract” excuse for their stance that economic…

May 6

Forced-Unionism Apologist Dean Baker Favors 'Completely One-Sided' Labor Laws

In a column published 50 years ago this summer, economic journalist Henry Hazlitt took on proponents of compulsory unionism who hypocritically invoke “freedom of contract” as their justification for their stance. At the time, Big Labor was pushing furiously for…