Labor Unions and Public Policy

Leftwich, Richard H.; Chamberlin, Edward H.; Bradley, Philip D.; Reilly, Gerard D.; Pound, Roscoe

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“…The American Enterprise Association had gradually moved to the study of government policies and was keen, therefore, to bring to the attention of Congress those developments that could help the cause. The conclusion of one of the reviewers left no doubt as to the aim of the book, even if its analyses showed more nuance: “the primary objective of the writers was the case against the unions” (Leftwich 1959, p. 374). Other reviewers were not necessarily more generous but some pointed to the apparent inconsistency between Chamberlin’s conclusion that workers improve their lot through collective bargaining and Philip D. Bradley’s refutation of the free-rider argument for the union shop on the basis that unions do not obtain significant benefits for workers in the bargaining unit (see Lester 1959, p. 205; Phelps Brown 1959, p. 180).…”

Section: The Free Rider and Labor Unionsmentioning

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Free Riding

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2014

J Hist Econ Thought

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Following the publication of The Logic of Collective Action by Mancur Olson in 1965, the notion of free riding gained wide currency in economics. The idea of enjoying the benefi ts of collective action without incurring the corresponding costs seemed to shed light on a number of major issues in American society at a time when social ills of various kinds prompted policy makers to reconsider the conditions of social cohesion. Gradually, free riding became to be regarded as the standard behavior of people placed in certain circumstances rather than the exception confi rming the rule that people pay for what they get.In this article, after reviewing the various meanings associated with the term free riding (and free rider ), I follow the notion from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. I show that though it was used to tackle problems in fi elds as diverse as fi nance and labor-the study of which betrays the usual tensions between the free market and government intervention-from the mid-1960s, the notion increasingly conveyed a message about society as a whole. That an economic notion could serve such a purpose is another indication of the permeation of society by economic reasoning.

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Section: The Free Rider and Labor Unionsmentioning

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