Walter Block Debates Bill Quigley on Minimum Wages

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government

03/17/2015 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

The Loyola economics club hosted a debate between economics professor Walter Block and law professor Bill Quigley on the minimum wage. The debate was held on 2/24/15.

For more on the minimum wage, see:

Why Minimum Wage is Keeping You from Getting a Job by Walter Block

The High Cost of Minimum Wages by Benjamin Wiegold

Don’t Raise the Minimum Wage by Mark Thornton

Cognitive Dissonance on Minimum Wages and Maximum Rents by Gary Galles

Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage by Murray Rothbard

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