Why Wages Rise, F.A. Harper
Why Wages Rise, F.A. Harper
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Why Wages Rise

Author: F.A. Harper

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/01/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Wages are of prime importance in any advanced economy such as ours. They affect us all far more than seems evidenced in our concern about them.
Basic principles always have a way of seeming simple, yet they can no more be oversimplified than can the law of gravity or the listing of chemical elements be oversimplified. What is needed in our complex society of millions of products sold by millions of business units to over a hundred million traders through billions of transactions each year is to get back to simple economic principles. These are working tools for solving problems that seem more complex than they really are.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Inderpal on September 20, 2019

Great refresher on the most fundamental of economics. The book suggests we should limit government and unions and let free markets rule, for an optimal economy and overall citizen welfare. I enjoyed this read.......more

Goodreads review by Warren on May 06, 2013

I lied to Goodreads - I wasn't "currently reading" this book; I rushed through it in one day. Harper delivers on the title - he clearly explains why wages rise in terms that make as much sense now as they did when he wrote it in 1957. This book, well understood and applied, could make the reader more......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on May 28, 2018

There are so many myths out there about economics and apparently they haven't changed since the 1950s. This book explains things really clearly and dispels those myths. For instance, it points out that wages cannot meaningfully increase without an increase in production, since ultimately people can't......more

Goodreads review by Khoa on November 06, 2023

Productivity, inflation. Artificial wage is like playing with dynamite.......more

Goodreads review by Ramesh on July 17, 2022

An extraordinary book . Starts off with the simplest of examples of how society and wages evolve . A book so profound that I think it is mandatory reading every year .......more