freediver wrote on Oct 12
th, 2020 at 5:31pm:
Is there anything in the OP you disagree with?
Yes, all of it. It is a crude union-bashing propaganda meme that to my knowledge has no basis whatsoever in fact - but is demonstrably refuted by the facts.
Quote:As I explained,
What exactly have you "explained" FD? Apart from copying Friedman's baseless brain fart and insisting (without any elaboration) how the article is somehow only "half the story"?
Thats not explaining FD, thats parotting useless memes that mean nothing at all.
Oh thats right, you also "explained" how all the economists I cited demonstrating with actual evidence how wrong Friedman is, actually don't exist.
freediver wrote on Oct 12
th, 2020 at 5:31pm:
Whoever wrote it probably agrees with Friedman, and Friedman also says very similar things to your author.
"Whoever wrote it" says nothing of the kind. You're probably confusing them with one of the cited authors - Freeman, who distinguishes between the 'within sector' and 'between sector' effects. He alludes to, though doesn't specifically explain, a "disequalising" effect between union and non-union workers between sector - which presumably is the same as Friedman's disequalising theory. However he stresses that since the 'within sector' equalising effect is so strong, it overrides any possible 'between sector' disequalising effect - thus making the overall effect of unions on wages equalising. Or in other words, the exact opposite of what Friedman claims.