Randall Holcombe | Friday October 23, 2009 at 10:15 AM PDT
The United States enacted its minimum wage law in 1938. It didn’t cover all workers, and still doesn’t, but establishes a policy that in some cases government should abridge people’s freedom of contract to mandate a wage different from the one people might agree upon. The “principle” appears to be that some wage levels…
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