Sylvester Petro

Articles

06/27/2018 Mises Daily Sylvester Petro

[ Originally published in The Freeman , May 1, 1959.] Coercion marks the beginning and corruption the conclusion of the march of union power observable in the McClellan Record. The process begins...

Competition, Monopoly and the Role of Government

07/04/2018 Mises Wire Sylvester Petro

[ Reprinted from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina G. Greaves.] The great monopoly problem mankind has to face today is not an outgrowth of the operation of the market economy...

Do Antitrust Laws Preserve Competition?

11/24/2009 Mises Daily Sylvester Petro

Competition is not a mode of conduct that anyone has to promote institutionally. It develops naturally and necessarily among persons who are free to pursue their own interests.

Publications

The Labor Policy of the Free Society

07/20/1957 Sylvester Petro

Professor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital

The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law

01/15/1961 Sylvester Petro

Are labor unions merely an example of “free association”? Perhaps in some dreamland, but the real history of American labor organizing tells a different story. This 1961 book by labor economist Sylvester Petro tells a story of the destruction of

Power Unlimited: The Corruption of Union Leadership

11/22/1959 Sylvester Petro

A report on the May 1957 “McClellan Committee Hearings”: the hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations. “The author has chosen well the individual cases which illustrate the methods of the

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