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Hayek on Trade Unions: Social Philosopher or Propagandist?

In: Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher

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  • Ray Richardson
  • B. C. Roberts

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When reviewing one of Hayek’s books recently I became conscious of his willingness to make a number of important empirical judgments, particularly on trade unions, without accompanying them by any supporting evidence.2 As an example, just one among many, consider his remarkable claim (in ‘1980s Unemployment and the Unions’ — Hayek, 1991) that the legalised powers acquired by British trade unions prior to 1980 became ‘the biggest obstacle to raising the living standards of the working class as a whole ... the chief cause of the unnecessarily big differences between the best- and worst-paid workers ... the prime source of unemployment... [and] ... the main reason for the decline of the British economy in general’ (Hayek, 1991, p. 344).

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  • Ray Richardson & B. C. Roberts, 1997. "Hayek on Trade Unions: Social Philosopher or Propagandist?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stephen F. Frowen (ed.), Hayek: Economist and Social Philosopher, chapter 12, pages 259-280, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25991-5_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25991-5_12
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    1. Shigeki Kusunoki, 2023. "Hayek on labor unions and restraint of trade," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 34(4), pages 598-612, December.

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