Caplan is a notorious free-market nutcase. There must be something seriously wrong with George Mason. http://economics.gmu.edu/bcaplan/ Interestingly, during the minimum wage fight some time back, a rather startling number of conservative pundits like George Will - and 28 GOP senators - agreed with Caplan's view that the best minimum wage is no minimum wage, at all. But he speaks for the majority of libertarians, paleocons, and other conservatives who dread the power of the demos to metaphorically raid the granaries of the rich by insisting on things like wages and hours legislation, workplace safety protections, a variety of workers' rights that …
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