By our bootstraps: Origins and effects of the high-wage doctrine and the minimum wage |
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Authors: | Jason Taylor George Selgin |
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Institution: | (1) University of Virginia, 22903 Charlottesville, VA;(2) University of Georgia, 30602 Athens, GA |
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Abstract: | Conclusion Although the high-wage doctrine — the belief that the level of aggregate demand is determined by the level of wage rates —
is most often associated with the Great Depression, the doctrine’s effects on wage policy go back at least two decades further.
Rather than having been a product of desperate times, the doctrine gained wide acceptance during the prosperous 1920s as businessmen
and economists, citing the success of Henry Ford's continuing high-wage policies, and the (supposedly counterproductive) wage
deflation that had marked the steep depression of 1920-21, applied the doctrine's demand-enhancing logic to push for an economy-wide
minimum wage.
The authors thank Fred Bateman, Don Bellante, Roger Garrison, Peter Klein, and Anthony Patrick O’Brien for thoughtful comments
and suggestions. |
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