For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...

With the winds of trade war blowing as they have not done in decades, and left and right agreeing only on protectionism, a leading economist forcefully shows how a free and open economy is still the best way to advance the interests of working Americans.--