Fallacy 1 : U.S. goods cannot compete effectively with those produced by cheap labor in countries such as China -- Fallacy 2 : Immigrant labor confers economic benefits on the host country -- Fallacy 3 : Globalization acts to raise living standards in the West -- Fallacy 4 : Countries forming a...

Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong, David Colander and Craig Freedman argue that it never will....