Labor's European Model

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date March 16, 2009
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123716333620835923.html
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Quotes-start.png "The late economist Mancur Olson explained the phenomenon. Starting with "The Logic of Collective Action" (1965), he showed how democracies are vulnerable to proliferating parochial interests that use government to claim an ever larger share of private wealth. Slow but clear decline follows once narrow interests take the wider polity hostage. Look at France -- or California." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Employee Free Choice Act.