Ep. 182 Hooray for the Minimum Wage? How Economists Went Off Track - a podcast by Bob Murphy and Tom Woods

In paying his respects to the recently deceased Alan Krueger, author of the widely discussed 1994 Card-Krueger study on the minimum wage, Krugman praises him for changing the way economists think about that subject. According to Krugman/Krueger, the labor market is more complicated than we thought, and increases in the minimum wage appear to have little to no effects on employment. Here's our reply to all this.

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