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THE SMITH CENTER | for Private Enterprise Studies |
Charles W. Baird, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Emeritus Professor of Economics and Former Director of the Smith Center
California State University, East Bay
510-885-3275
E-mail: charles.baird@csueastbay.edu
Website: thesmithcenter.org
DEGREES
B.S.B.A. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts: 1964 (Economics)(MagnaCum Laude)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley: 1968 (Economics)
ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP IN MONT PELERIN SOCIETY: 1986
ELECTED TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MONT PELERIN SOCIETY: 2000
VICE PRESIDENT OF MONT PELERIN SOCIETY: 2004
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1964
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1964-65
Danforth Fellow, 1964-68
Faculty Meritorious Performance Award, CSUH, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990 (Thisawardwas discontinued in 1992)
TEACHING POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Economics University of California, Los Angeles;1968-1973.
Associate Professor of Economics California State University, Hayward(CSUH);1973-1976.
Professor of Economics CSUH; 1976-present.
Mises Institute Professor, Instructional Seminar in Austrian Economics,StanfordUniversity, June 22-27, 1987
Visiting Professor of Business Economics, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,South Africa, July/August 1987, July/August 1993
MBA Executive Degree Program: a Joint Venture between IMADEC (privateAustrianbusiness school) and CSUH, Vienna, Austria, 1996 to 1998.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS CSUEB
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Business and Economics, CSUEB, 2005-
Co-Chairman (two people shared chair's position), Department of Economics, CSUH, September 2000 to 2005
Director, The Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies, CSUEB -- 1991 to present (See monthly on-line column at the above URL).
Acting Chairman -- Department of Economics, CSUEB; 1975-1976, Spring 1986,
Fall 1996, Fall 1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Speaker and Specialist Grant from the U. S. Department of State -- August 5-14, 2001. Undertook a tour of India speaking on the subject of Labor Law Liberalization.
Director, Seminar on Austrian Economics ‑‑ Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA; Summer 1977.
Director ‑‑ Seminar on Austrian Economics, Liberty Fund; Summer 1982
Senior Economist ‑‑ Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco, CA; 1982‑1984
Academic Advisory Board, Free Market Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa 1998 to present
Adjunct Scholar, National Institute for Labor Relations Research, Springfield, VA 2002 to present
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (in chronological order)
Abstract of doctoral dissertation The Journal of Finance , June1970,pp. 690-691
On the Publicness of Health Care," Review of Social Economy,September 1969, pp. 109-120
"A Proposal for Financing the Purchase of Health Services,"Journalof Human Resources, Winter 1970, pp. 89-105
"Knut Wicksell on the Integration of Monetary and Value Theory,"SwedishJournal of Economics, June 1970, pp. 101-110
"A Case for Advertising by Physicians and Dentists," JournalofConsumer Affairs, Summer 1970, pp. 46-53
"A Technique for Analyzing Inaccurately Estimated TradeOffs,"Reviewof Social Economy, September 1970, pp. 173-178
"A Market Solution to Medical Inflation: A Reply," JournalofHuman Resources, Winter 1971, pp. 125-129
"On Profits and Hospitals," Journal of Economic Issues,March 1971, pp. 57-66
"Still More on Profits and Hospitals: Journal of Economic Issues,September1971, pp. 123-126
Macroeconomics: Monetary, Search and Income Theories Science ResearchAssociates,1973.
Prices and Markets: Microeconomics West Publishing Company, March1975.
"Polluter's Profit and Political Response: Comment" (with RobertS.Main), American Economic Review, December 1976, pp. 979-980
Elements of Macroeconomics West Publishing Company, January 1977.
Elements of Microeconomics (with Robert S. Main) West PublishingCompany,April 1977.
Advertising by Professionals International Institute of EconomicResearch,University of California , Los Angeles, October 1977 (a monograph).
Unionism and the Public Sector International Institute of EconomicResearch,University of California, Los Angeles, August 1978 (a monograph;reprintedin Managerial and Decision Economics, University of Edinburgh,June1981.)
"Tax Reform and a Proposal" (with Philip P. Storrer), TaxesTheTaxMagazine, October 1978, pp. 629-634
Rent Control: The Perennial Folly CATO Institute, 1980 (a monograph)
Macroeconomics: Monetary, Search and Income Theories (2nd edition,withAlexander E. Cassuto) SRA, 1980.
"The Hatch Act and Inflation," Government Union Review,Fall 1980, pp. 35-51
Foreword to The Theory of Collective Bargaining 19301975 by W.H.Hutt,CATO Institute, 1980.
Elements of Macroeconomics (2nd edition), West Publishing Company,1981.
Elements of Microeconomics (2nd edition, with Robert S. Main),WestPublishing Company, 1981.
"Some Philosophical and Economic Arguments in Support of UnionFreeCollegesand Universities," Government Union Review, Spring1981, pp.22-30
"Proportionality, Justice, and the Value Added Tax," CATOJournal,Fall 1981, pp. 405-420
Prices and Markets: Microeconomics (2nd edition) West PublishingCompany,1982.
"For Love or Money: A Book Review" Managerial and DecisionEconomics,June 1982, pp. 112-113
"Polish Solidarity vs. American Unionism" Government UnionReview,Winter 1982, pp. 4757
"The Philosophy and Ideology of Pollution Regulation" CATOJournal,Winter 1982, pp. 301-304
"Public Employees, Unions, and the Erosion of Civic Trust: A BookReview"Journal of Labor Research, Fall 1983, pp. 393-396
Opportunity or Privilege: Labor Legislation in America , TransactionBooks,Rutgers University, 1984 (a monograph).
"Teacher Unions, Educational Quality, and A Free Market Remedy,"GovernmentUnion Review, Summer 1984, pp. 12-31
"Comparable Worth: The Labor Theory of Value and Worse," GovernmentUnionReview, Winter 1985, pp. 129
"Labor Law and Entrepreneurial Discovery," Austrian EconomicsNewsletter,Summer 1985, pp. 15
"Labor Law and the First Amendment," Cato Journal, Spring/Summer1985,pp. 203-218
"On The Bishops and the Market," The Freeman , December1985,pp. 718-727
"Strikes Against Government: The California Supreme Court Decision,"GovernmentUnion Review, Winter 1986, pp. 129
"The Politics of Teacher Unionism: A Book Review," JournalofLabor Research, Fall 1986, pp. 423-425
"The Economics of Time and Ignorance: A Review Article," TheReviewof Austrian Economics, Vol.I, Lexington Books, 1986, pp. 189-206
"Perils in the Carnegie Forum Report on Teaching," GovernmentUnionReview, Winter 1987, pp. 25-46
"Labor Law and LaborManagement Cooperation: Two Incompatible Views,"CATOJournal, Winter 1987, pp. 933-950
"The Varieties of `Right to Work': An Essay in Honor of W.H.Hutt,"Managerial& Decision Economics, Winter 1988, pp. 3343.(Thisis a festschriftarticle. It is reprinted in the Spring 1988 issue of GovernmentUnionReview, pp. 122.)
"James Buchanan and the Austrians: The Common Ground," CATOJournal,Spring/Summer 1989, pp. 201-230
"Pennsylvania's Act 195: Twenty Years of Folly," GovernmentUnionReview, Summer 1989, pp. 139
"American Union Law: Sources of Conflict," Journal of LaborResearch,Summer 1990, pp. 269-292
"Solidarity and Labor Law Reform in the 1990s," The Freeman,June1990, pp. 224-225
Book review: Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice ,byIsrael Kirzner, The Freeman, August 1990, pp. 318-320
"Labor Law Reform: Lessons From History," CATO Journal,Spring/Summer1990, pp. 175-209. (Reprinted in Government Union Review,Winter 1991)
"On the Right to Strike," The Freeman , October 1990,pp.387-391; reprinted in Hans F. Sennholz, ed., American Unionism: FallaciesandFollies, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson,NY,1994, pp. 57-64.
"The European Community's Social Charter: A Market Process Analysis,"GovernmentUnion Review, Fall 1990, pp. 1-31.
"Unions Drop Their Mask," The Freeman , March 1991,pp.9195; reprinted in Hans F. Sennholz, ed., American Unionism: FallaciesandFollies, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson,NY,1994. pp. 116-120.
"What Garbage Crisis?," The Freeman , June 1991, pp.204-207,reprinted in Policy , (journal of The Centre for IndependentStudies,Australia), Autumn 1992, pp. 23-25. Also reprinted in Hans F. Sennholz,ed.,Man and Nature, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson,NY,1993, pp. 179-186.
"On Strikers and Their Replacements," Government Union Review,Summer1991, pp. 1-30.
"A Tale of Infamy: The Air Associates Strikes of 1941," TheFreeman,April 1992, pp. 152-159; reprinted in Hans F. Sennholz, ed.,AmericanUnionism: Fallacies and Follies , Foundation for EconomicEducation,Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, 1994, pp. 100-115.
"The Permissible Uses of Forced Union Dues: From Hanson toBeck,"Policy Analysis , No. 174, July 24, 1992, theCato Institute, pp.54. Reprinted as a monograph in Government UnionReview, Summer 1992.
"Are Quality Circles Illegal? Global Competition Meets the New Deal,"BriefingPapers, No. 18, February 10, 1993, the Cato Institute, pp.16. Reprintedin The Freeman, July 1993, pp. 263-271.
"The Return of Big Labor," The World & I , July1993,pp. 102-109.
"Outlawing Cooperation: Chapter Two," Regulation Magazine,Number3, 1993, Cato Institute, pp. 12-15
"Strikers and Scabs," The Freeman , March 1994, pp.143-144.
"I Have a Right!," in Mark Spangler ed., Cliches of Politics,Foundationfor Economic Education,Irvington -on-Hudson, NY, 1994, Cliche#1, pp. 9-11
"We Must Abide by the Majority. That's Democracy," in MarkSpanglered., Cliches of Politics, Foundation for Economic Education,Irvington-on-Hudson,NY, 1994, Cliche #7, pp. 30-32
"Labor Cartels, Competition and Government," The Freeman,August1994, pp. 426-429.
"Profit and Loss," in Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Elgar CompaniontoAustrian Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., Hants, England,1994,Chapter 21, pp. 143-150
"The Dunlop Commission Report: Friends of Unions," GovernmentUnionReview, Fall 1994, pp. 1-42
"Labor Law," Chapter 25 in The CATO Handbook for Congress,Cato Institute, Washington, DC, 1995 pp.229-236.
Book review: The New Unionism in the New Society: Public Sector Unionsinthe Redistributive State , by Leo Troy, The Freeman, May 1995,pp.330-332
"Toward Equality and Justice in Labor Markets," The JournalofSocial, Political and Economic Studies , Summer 1995, pp. 163-186
"Clinton and the Union Dinosaur," The Conservative Review,Nov./Dec. 1995, pp. 13-14
"Freedom and American Labor Relations Law: 1946-1996, 50th AnniversaryEdition,The Freeman, May 1996, pp. 299-309
"The Employment Contracts Act: Almost a Model for the World,"TheSocial Critic," Vol. 1, No. 3 (July /August 1996) pp. 22-27
The Employment Contracts Act and Unjustifiable Dismissal (a monograph),NewZealand Business Roundtable, Wellington, New Zealand, August 1996
"Rights, Freedom and Rivalry," The Freeman, October1996.
"Perspective: Freedom-for-Labor Day in New Zealand," TheFreeman,October 1996
Equality FOR the Labor Market: An Appreciation of W H Hutt (amonograph),The Free Market Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, Fall1996.
"Deregulation of the New Zealand Labor Market: Things Done and LeftUndone,"The Social Critic, Vol. 1, No. 5 (November/December1996) pp. 26-30.
"Labor Relations Law," Chapter 35, CATO Handbook for the 105thCongress,Washington, DC: The CATO Institute, February 1997, pp. 363-371.
"Equality FOR the Labor Market: An Appreciation of WH Hutt,"(ashorter version of the monograph above), Journal of Labor Research,Spring1997, pp. 239-264.
"The NEA and Its Federal Charter," (a monograph), Public ServicesResearchFoundation, Vienna, VA, June 1997 (appears as an entire issue ofGovernmentUnion Review, Summer 1996 which was actually published inJune 1997.)
"Good News in the UPS Capitulation," The Social Critic ,Summer1997, pp.65-67. Reprinted in Conservative Review November/December1997,pp.21-22.
"Aid to Owners of Dependent Enterprises," The Freeman,November1997
"The Future of the Union Movement: Clues from the UPS Strike,"TheFreeman , December 1997, pp.738-740.
"Elections, Extortion and Unions," The Freeman , January1998,pp. 46-47.
"Union-Friendly Legislation and Union Density: A Laffer Curve Analysis,"pp.29-39 in Innovative Applications of the Laffer Curve, editedby CharlesW. Baird and Jeff R. Clark, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise,Chattanooga,TN 1998. I also wrote the Preface to this volume.
"A Model for South African Unionism" an Afterword" forthe1998 reprint of W. H. Hutt's Theory of Collective Bargaining, FreeMarketFoundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998 pp. 123-129.
"The Myth of Compulsory Union Membership," The Freeman,March1998, pp.155-156.
"Salt Without Savour" The Freeman, May 1998, pp. 319-320
Book review: Rewarding Work by Edmund S. Phelps in The Freeman,June1998, pp.377-378.
Review Essay: Rewarding Work by Edmund S. Phelps in The SocialCritic,Spring, 1998, pp.54-57.
"Union Friendly Legislation and Union Density: A Laffer Curve Analysis,"(seeabove), reprinted in The Journal of Private Enterprise, VolumeXIV,Special Issue, 1998, pp. 29-39.
Equality for the Labor Market: An Appreciation of WH Hutt (seeabove),monograph reprinted in Korean by the Korea Center For Free Enterprise,Monograph# 16, Seoul, Korea, 1998.
The Employment Contracts Act and Unjustifiable Dismissal (seeabove)monograph reprinted by The Free Market Foundation, Johannesburg,South Africa,1998
"Who Wins in Strikes," The Freeman, August 1998, pp.511-512
"Right to Work Before and After 14(b)," Journal of LaborResearch,Summer 1998, pp. 471-493.
"Labour Relations in the 21st Century: Lessons from W.H. Hutt,"SouthAfrican Journal of Economics, Fall 1998, pp.196-211.
"Paycheck Protection in California: What Went Wrong?," TheFreeman,November 1998, pp. 703-704.
"The ILO's Strange Use of Words," The Freeman, February1999,pp. 63-64.
"Labor Relations Law," Cato Handbook for the 106th Congress,CatoInstitute, Washington, DC, Chapter 33, pp.343-52.
"Just Deserts," The Freeman, March 1999, pp. 10-13.
"Recycling Labor," The Freeman, April 1999, pp8-12
The Right-to-Work Issue: A Rebuttal of Hogler and Shulman, NationalInstitutefor Labor Relations Research, Springfield, VA, Occasional Paper,May 1999
"Tony Blair and Fairness at Work," The Freeman, May1999.
"An Open Letter to the California Legislature," The Freeman,August1999, pp. 63-64
"The AFL-CIO: Renaissance or Irrelevance?" The Freeman,November1999, pp. 63-64
"Unions and Antitrust: Government Hypocrisy," Ideas on Liberty,February2000, pp. 63-64
"Sources of Prounion Sentimentality," Ideas on Liberty,March2000, pp. 45-47
Book review: The Stakeholder Society, by Bruce Ackerman and AnneAlsott,in Ideas on Liberty, April 2000, pp. 55-56.
"Pulling Us Apart," Ideas on Liberty, May 2000, pp.63-64.
"OSHA at Home," Ideas on Liberty, August 2000, pp. 63-64
"Unions and Antitrust," The Journal of Labor Research,Fall2000, pp. 585-600.
"A Light Goes Out in New Zealand," Ideas on Liberty,September2000, pp. 35-37.
"Alchian and Menger on Money," Review of Austrian Economics,Vol.13, No. 2, (September 2000): 115-120
"Shameless in California," Ideas on Liberty, November2000:63-64
"Congress and Public Safety Unionism," Ideas on Liberty,February2001, pp. 63-64
"A Faculty Union's California Gold Rush: 'Malice in Plunderland'atCal State," Labor Watch, Capital Research Center, Washington,DC,February 2001, pp. 1-7
Book Review of Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law andWhyIt Matters, by David D. Friedman, Princeton University Press, 2000,inIdeas on Liberty, March 2001, pp. 55-56
"Labor Relations Law," Chapter 37 in Cato Handbook for the107thCongress, Cato Institute, Washington, DC. 2001: 397-408
"It Depends on What the Meaning of 'Advice' Is," Ideas onLiberty,May 2001. pp. 63-64
"Unions Draft Temporary Workers," Ideas On Liberty,August2001. pp. 63-64
"A Reply to a Labor Priest," Ideas on Liberty, September2001,pp. 48-50
"Unchaining the Workers" Regulation Magazine, Vol.24,No.3 (Fall 2001), pp. 12-13
"Bastiat and Unionism," Ideas on Liberty, November 2001,pp.63-64
"Toward Voluntary Unionism," The Journal of Private Enterprise,VolumeXVII, No. 1 (Fall 2001), pp.77-96
"Unions on the Run," Ideas on Liberty, February 2002.pp.63-64
"Government Sector Unionism," Ideas on Liberty, May2002.pp. 63-64
"The Living Wage Folly," Ideas on liberty, June 2002
"On Freedom of Association," Ideas on Liberty, July2002,pp. 14-16
"The PLA Hustle," Ideas on Liberty, August 2002., pp.63-64
"Unions Lose Again in Oklahoma," Ideas on Liberty, November2002.pp. 63-64
"Labor Law and the West Coast Dock Dispute," Ideas on Liberty,February2003, pp. 63-64
Liberating Labor, Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Acton Institute,2003
"Labor Relations Law," CATO Handbook for the 108th Congress,Chapter34, Cato Institute, Washington, DC
"An Egregious Union Scandal," Ideas on Liberty, May2003,pp. 63-64
"Reply to Hoagler and LaJeunesse's 'Oklahoma'a Right to Work Initiative:LaborPolicy and Politicl Ideology," (with Stan Greer), Labor LawJournal,Volume. 54, Issue No. 2 (Summer 2003) pp. 89-100.
"Lessons from the Washington Teachers Union," Ideas on Liberty,September2003, pp. 63-64
"Catholic Social Teaching and Unionism," Journal des Economistesetdes Etudes Humaine, Vol. XIII Number 2/3 (September 2003): 353-375.
"California's Apprenticeship Scam," The Freeman, December2003,pp. 39-40
"The Phony Case Against the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Correct One,"(withStan Greer), Labor Law Journal, Volume 55, No. 1, (Spring 2004),pp.25-37
"Back Toward Serfdom in New Zealand," The Freeman, April2004,pp. 47-48
"The Public and the Unions," The Freeman, July/August 2004, pp. 47-48
"Henry Hazlitt on Unions," The Freeman, November 2004, pp. 47-48
"Henry Hazlitt on Unions, Part II, The Freeman, March 2005, pp. 47-48
"The Perils of Faculty Unionism," The Enterpriser, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, Spring 2005, pp 4,6.
"Employee Free Choice and Top-Down Organizing, The Freeman, June 2005, pp. 47-48
"Public Sector Labor-Management Cooperation and Unions," IPMA-HR News, International Public Management Association for Public Resources, Alexandria, VA, July 2005, pp. 5-6
“Australian Labor-Relations Sell-Out,” The Freeman, October 2005, pp. 47-48.
“The Government-Created Right-to-Work Issue,” The Freeman, January/February 2006, pp. 47-48.
“Unionism,” in Frohnen, Beer and Nelson (eds.), American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books, Wilmington, DE, 2006, pp. 879-881.
“Unions and Abortion Protestors,” The Freeman, May 2006, pp. 47-48.
“Freedom for Workers,” The Freeman, September 2006. pp. 47-48.
“Hayek on the Rule of Law and Unions,” The Freeman, December 2006, pp. 40-41.
Forthcoming
"The Mont Pelerin Society," in the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, the CATO Institute, Washington, DC.
“Labor Unions,” in the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, the CATO Institute, Washington, DC
“Hayek on Closed Shops and
Yellow Dogs,” The Freeman, April 2007.
In Progress
"F. A. Hayek on Labour Unions," Chapter in a book edited by Norman Barry for
Edward Elgar Publishing.
EDITORIAL POSTIONS
Contributing Editor, The Freeman, Foundation for Economic Education,Irvington-on-Hudson,NY, 1994 - 1998.
Quarterly columnist, The Freeman (formerly Ideas on Liberty),Foundationfor Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, 1998 to present.(In 2000the name of the magazine was changed to Ideas on Liberty.It was changedback to The Freeman in 2003.)
Board of Editors, CATO Journal, Washington, D.C.; 1981-present
Board of Fellows, Government Union Review , Vienna, VA; 1980-present
Board of Editors, Review of Austrian Economics, Mises Institute,AuburnUniversity; 1985-1998.
CURRENT INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS
CATO Institute, Washington, DC
Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA
Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
Public Services Research Foundation, Vienna, VA
Free Market Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Association of Private Enterprise Education
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"The Free Market Banking Alternative," Letters to the Editor,WallStreet Journal, February 10, 1983
"Tax Indexation is Fair Policy," Chicago Tribune , March22,1983 (also published in four other papers)
"Tax Credits, Competition, and Educational Quality," ReadingEagle,Reading, PA. August 8, 1983 (also published in five other papers).
"No IMF Bailouts," Gazette Telegraph , Colorado Springs,CO.,December 4, 1983.
"Public Funding and Black Colleges," USA Today, February6,1984
"Credit Card Surcharges," USA Today , March 2, 1984
"The Latchkey Issue", USA Today , May 30, 1984
"Three Cheers and Three Challenges for Mr. Kirkland," SantaAnaRegister, Santa Ana, CA., January 6, 1985 (also published in threeotherpapers).
"Labor Law and American Competitiveness," Los Angeles HeraldExaminer,October 16, 1985 (also pub lished in three other papers).
"Innovative Unionism," Letters to the Editor, Wall StreetJournal,December 22, 1987
"Hands Off the Hatch Act," Waterbury Republican , (CT)January27, 1988
"ABCs of Child Care Spell Bureaucracy," Letters to the Editor,WallStreet Journal, July 21, 1988
"One Moral Right Unions Don't Have," Wall Street Journal,October6, 1988
"Entrenching a Mediocre Union," Orange County Register,April 9, 1989
"Sneak Attack on NonUnion Faculty," Oakland Tribune(CA),May 12, 1989
"American Labor Law Needs Reform," Sunday Republican,Waterbury,CT, May 27, 1990
"Union Returns to OldFashioned Violence," GazetteTelegraph,ColoradoSprings, CO, February 8, 1991
"The Myth of the Garbage Crisis," Morning Call , Allentown,PA,May 29, 1991, also published in nine other papers.
"What Garbage Crisis?," ORER Letter , University ofIllinoisat Urbana-Champaign, Spring/Summer 1992.
"Clinton Dishes Up Socialism," The Dominion , Wellington,NewZealand, May 26, 1993
"Clinton's Bows to Big Labor," Human Events , June 12,1993
"Beware the Tyranny of Economic Democracy," Business Day,Johannesburg,South Africa, August 17, 1993
"Apartheid's Evil Consequences," The Daily Review ,Hayward,CA, February 15, 1994
"Clinton Embraces Big-Labor Dinosaur," Human Events,April7, 1995, p. 298
"Minimum Wages Cost Jobs," The Dominion , Wellington,NewZealand, February 20, 1996
"Wages Case Not Made," The Dominion , Wellington, NewZealand,March 4, 1996
"On Labour, Dead Fish, and Red Herrings," New Zealand Herald,Auchland, January 2, 1997.
"Measure Would Keep Politics Out of Pocketbooks," DailyNews,Los Angeles, May 10, 1998.
"The Courts and Microsoft," Daily Review, Hayward, CAandother ANG papers, July 3, 2001
"Labour Reform a Far Cry from US System," Australian Financial Review, July 14, 2005.
"Voluntary Association and Union Politics," Acton Institute News and Commentary, August 3, 2005 www.acton.org.
"Government Unions Surge," The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA, August
28, 2005, pp. D1, D4.
TELEVISION, RADIO, AND FILM APPEARANCES
"No Room at the Inn," KQEDTV, San Francisco, CA. January 8,1979.A one hour panel discussion on the nature and causes of the Bay Areahousingshortage.
"The Economic Case for a Constitutional Amendment to Balance theFederalBudget," The Advocates, PBSTV (national). April 1, 1979.
Role in educational film entitled, "Who is Controlling Your Government:AnUrgent Issue," produced by Public Services Research Council, Vienna,Virginia.Premiered on Capitol Hill on December 8, 1981.
"A Report Card on Reaganomics," Newsmagazine , KCBSRadio,SanFrancisco, CA. August 25, 1982. One hour interview.
"The Owen Spann Show, "The Public School Monopoly,"ABCFM(national) and KGORadio, San Fran cisco, CA. October 7, 1982. Twoonehourinterviews.
"Resolving the Housing Crisis," Eyewitness NewsmakerKPIXTV,San Francisco, CA. February 20, 1983. Half hour interview.
"Black Colleges and Tax Money," Morning Break , WDVMTV,Washington,D.C., February 29, 1984. One hour.
"Tuition Tax Credits and Education Vouchers," Morning MagazineWOAI-radio,San Antonio, TX., Decem ber 28, 1984 One hour.
"Tax Reform or Tax Restructuring," Half hour interviews atKDKA-radio,Pittsburgh, PA, June 12, 1986 and WJNO-radio, West Palm Beach,FL, June 24,1986.
"Child Care Services: Crisis or Not?," KGOTV, San Francisco,Dec.30, 1986. One half hour.
"Whither Unionism," KINGradio, Seattle, WA, September 5, 1988.Onehour interview.
"The Balanced Budget Amendment" KTAR-radio, Phoenix, AZ, June11,1992. One hour interview.
"Clinton's Department for Unions," KPHP-radio, Portland, OR,July1, 1993. One hour interview.
"The Future of American Unions," KQED-TV (PBS), San Francisco,October8, 1993. Half hour debate format on program called "FACE TOFACE."
"Has Corporate Downsizing Gone Too Far?" KQED-TV (PBS), SanFrancisco,May 27, 1994, FACE TO FACE.
Co-Host of "FACE TO FACE," KQED-TV (PBS), San Francisco:
June 24, 1994, "Illegal Immigration and Public Health"
July 1, 1994, "Strikers and Their Permanent Replacements"
July 8, 1994, "Race-Based Policy and Justice"
"The Conservative Revolution," on This Week In NorthernCalifornia,KQED-TV (PBS), San Francisco, February 3, 1995
"Debate on California Civil Rights Initiative: Against AffirmativeAction,"TCI Cable TV, Alameda, CA, April 5, 1995
"The Flat Tax: Making the IRS Irrelevant," KSFO-radio, SanFrancisco,CA , April 25, 1995
"Corporate Welfare," on Marketplace, KGO-TV (Channel7),San Francisco, June 1, 1997
"Bay Area Conservatives," This Week in Northern California,KQED-TV(PBS), San Francisco, taped on 7/24/97 for broadcast on 9/19/97.
"In Support of Proposition 226," a debate, Contra Costa CableTV,Martinez, CA, April 22, 1998.
"In Support of Proposition 226," a debate, Marin Cable TV,SabRaphael, CA, May 28, 1998.
Debate on the US Supreme Court's welfare decision on May 17, 1999 inSaenzv.
Roe, Bay TV, San Francisco, "Take Issue,"
May 19, 1999.
"The Faculty Agency Shop Lawsuit," KSFO Talk Radio, Lee RodgersShow,February 17, 2000.
"The AFL-CIO Split," Ave Maria Radio, Al Kresta Show, July 26, 2005.
PUBLIC SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS (Since 1980)
"Let's Abolish the Department of Energy," San Leandro KiwanisClub.January 15, 1980.
"Let's Force the Feds to Balance Their Budget," San LeandroBreakfastClub. March 19, 1980.
Panel on "The Future of Public Sector Unionism," Public ServicesResearchFoundation. March 20, 1980.
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution regardingaproposed Constitutional amendment to require balanced federal budgets.April9, 1981.
"The Meaning of Supply Side Economics," Sunday Nighters ClubofAll Saints' Episcopal Church, San Leandro, CA. May 31, 1981.
"Where is the Middle Ground," CATO Conference on Pollution,PaloAlto, CA. December 1112, 1981.
"Water Rights and the New Resource Economics," PreservingtheEarth: the Property Rights Alternative . Symposium sponsored bythe Universityof Bridgeport School of Law and the Connecticut Institute,Bridge port, CT.April 16, 1983.
"Some Dangers in a Flat Tax," Pacific Forum, San Francisco,CA.April 26, 1983.
"Labor Law and Industrial Policy", Pacific Forum, San FranciscoCA.April 17, 1984.
"American Labor Law and the First Amendment", Dominican College,SanRafael, June 6, 1984.
"The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Estate in the U.K.: A Comment",papergiven at general meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, Cambridge, England,September3, 1984.
"The Supreme Court, Labor Law, and the First Amendment," libraryseminar,Institute for Humane Studies, April 10, 1985.
"Comparable Worth: Pay Equity or Economic Disaster," (a Debate),theForum, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, March 20, 1986
"Public Sector Unionism: a Constitutional Affront," the WisconsinForum,Milwaukee, WI, March 26, 1986
"Entrepreneurial Discovery in the Regulated Labor Market,"IntercollegiateStudies Institute conference on Entrepreneurship, McNeeseState University,Lake Charles, LA, April 11-12, 1986
"Public Sector Unionism and Democracy," College of the HolyCross,Worcester, MA, December 4, 1986
"Christian Perspectives on the Economy," Liberty Fund Conference,Williamsburg,VA, February 1214, 1987
"The Political Economy of South Africa," Free Marin Forum,SanRaphael, CA, December 2, 1987
"American Union Law: Sources of Conflict," Conference on JapaneseLaborRelations: Are There lessons for the US?, University of Tennessee,Chattanooga,April 5, 1989
"Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman Through the Eyes of W. H. Hutt,"annualmeeting of the History of Economics Society, University of Richmond,Richmond,VA, June 12, 1989
"Collective Bargaining in Higher Education," conference onthepros and cons of higher education faculty unionism, Western Nevada CommunityCollege,Carson City, NV, March 30, 1990
"The Political Economy of Waste Management," Regional Meetingofthe Mont Pelerin Society, Big Sky, Montana, August 24, 1991
"Christianity, Economics and Liberty," Liberty Fund Conference,Alexandria,VA, January 16-19, 1992
"Introducing the Smith Center," Fremont, CA Chamber of Commerce,January21, 1992
"On Strikers and Their Replacements," Mill Valley, CA Rotary,January28, 1992
"Is The Free Market Moral?," Intercollegiate Studies InstituteLeadershipConference, San Jose, CA, Novem ber 14, 1992
"A Christian Economist in Defense of Richard Epstein's ForbiddenGrounds,"American Economic Associa tion Annual Meeting, Anaheim,CA, January 6, 1993
"Perils in Clinton's Economic and Labor Policies," TempletonPortfolioAdvisory, Inc., Summit Conference, Monterey, CA, March 25, 1993
"Bill Clinton's Economic Follies," South African EconomicsSociety,Johannesburg, July 22, 1993
"Clinton's Unionist Agenda," Economics Seminar, UniversityofCape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, August 16, 1993
"Clinton's Economic Follies Revisited," Free Market Foundation,Johannesburg,South Africa, September 6, 1993
"Clinton's Keynesian Superstitions," Rosmoor Lions Club, WalnutCreek,CA, September 16, 1993
"The Return of Big Labor," San Ramon Valley (CA) RepublicanWomen'sClub, February 22, 1994
"The New South Africa: Another Bosnia or Socialist Decay?"SmithCenter Lecture, CSUH, February 23, 1994
"The Return of Big Labor," Dublin, CA Rotary Club, March 22,1994
"Ontology and Other Cures for Our Economies," and "PriceLeveland Productivity Standards," Two commentaries on papers givenat theInternational Institute for Austrian Economics conference on "Hayekv.Keynes," March 14-17, 1995, Vienna, Austria
"The Agenda of The Smith Center," Mission San Jose Rotary,Fremont,CA, March 24, 1995
"Labor Law Reform for the New Republican Majority," OaklandRotary,Oakland, CA, March 30, 1995
"The Agenda of The Smith Center," Oakland-Piedmont RepublicanClub,Naval Air Station, Alameda, CA, April 20, 1995
"Completing Neoclassical Market Theory: Entrepreneurship & Competition,"OmicronDelta Epsilon Economics Honor Society Banquet, University of Oklahoma,Norman,April 22, 1995
"The Flat Tax," Young Republicans of Contra Costa County, Pleasanton,CA,May 25, 1995
"The Labor Contributions of W. H. Hutt," panel discussion atregionalmeeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, Cape Town, South Africa, September12,1995
"Toward Equality and Justice in Labor Markets," paper writtenforand presented at regional meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, CapeTown,South Africa, September 13, 1995
"The Economics and Politics of the Flat Tax," Castro ValleyRotary,October 31, 1995
"The Illegitimacy of Government Employee Unions," NationalTaxLimitation Committee, San Diego, November 10, 1995
"Comments on Ikeda's Market Process General Theory of Interventionism,"SouthernEconomic Association, New Orleans, November 19, 1995
"Freedom and American Labor Relations Law: 1946-1996," UC Irvine,December1, 1995
"The Employment Contracts Act: Almost a Model for the World,"KaroriRotary, Wellington, New Zealand, March 19, 1996
"Education, Teacher Unions and Competition," Auckland Rotary,Auckland,New Zealand, May 13, 1996
" Deregualtion of the New Zealand Labour Market: Things Done andLeftUndone," Conference on New Zealand Business Employment: MovingAhead,New Zealand Business Roundtable, Auckland, New Zealand, May 15, 1996.
Testimony before the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities,Subcommitteeon Employer -Employee Relations, US House of Representatives,in supportof the proposed Worker Right to Know Act [HR 3580, a codificationof CommunicationsWorkers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988)], June 19, 1996.
" Union-Friendly Legislation and Union Density: A Laffer Curve Analysis,"paper presented tothe Southern Economic Association, November 24,1996.
"Getting Union Dues Out of Politics," Orinda, California RepublicanWomen'sClub, March 20, 1997.
"A Laffer Curve Analysis of Minimum Wages: A Comment" presentedatthe Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 21, 1997.
"Labour Relations in New Zealand and South Africa," Free MarketFoundation,Johannesburg, South Africa, February 18, 1998.
"An Economic Analysis of Unjustifiable Dismissal Regulations,"Universityof the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 19,1998.
"Labour Relations in the 21st Century: Lessons from WH Hutt,"thefirst annual WH Hutt Memorial Lecture, University of Cape Town, CapeTown,South Africa, February 24, 1998.
"A Critique of the Labour Provisions in the Austrian Social Partnership,"ManzSeminar, Vienna, Austria, April 29, 1998.
Critique of "The Unity of Market Theory and Morality," by RobertSirico,President of the Acton Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, presented atthe annualmeeting of the Southern Economics Association (SEA), November9, 1998.
"Menger and Alchian on Money," Presidential Address, Societyforthe Development of Austrian Economics, New Orleans, LA, November 22,1999.
"Critique of 'Trust: A Cause and Consequence of Government Performance,'"byJR Clark and Dwight Lee, presented at the annual meeting of the SouthernEconomicAssociation, New Orleans, LA, November 21, 1999.
"Comments on 'William Hutt and the Economics of Apartheid.'"byPeter Lewin, presented at the annual meeting of the Southern EconomicAssociation,New Orleans, LA, November 22, 1999.
"Unions and Antitrust," paper presented at the annual mettingofThe Association of Private Enterprise, in Las Vegas, NV, April 4, 2000.
"The Class Action Suit Against the California Faculty Association,"Presentationat the inaugural national meeting of the Paycheck ProtectionWorking Groupin San Diego, California, July 24, 2000.
"Toward Voluntary Unionism," Paper delivered at the annualmeetingof the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Washington,DC, April9, 2001.
"The Relevance of F. A. Hayek," presentation at the IndependentInstitute,Oakland, CA, May 16, 2001.
"The Case for Labor Law Liberalization," Federation of IndianChambersof Commerce and Industry, Delhi, India, August 6, 2001.
"Labor and Employment Contract Law in an Open Market Economy,"NationalLaw School of India University, Bangalore, India, August 8, 2001.
"Labor and Employment Contract Law in an Open Market Economy,"KarnatakaState Bar Council, Bangalore, India, August 8, 2001.
"Labor Law Reform, Industrial Productivity and Job Security,"Indo-AmericanChamber of Commerce, Bangalore, India, August 8, 2001.
"Labor Law Reform for the 21st Century," half-day seminar sponsoredbyUS Consulate, Chennai, India, August 10, 2001.
"Labor and Employment Contract Law in an Open Market Economy, MadrasBarAssociation, Chennai, India, August 13, 2001.
"Bastiat and Unionism," lecture delivered at Universite d'Aix-en-Provence,France,September 4, 2001
"Religious Accommodation and Forced Unionism," AssociationofPrivate Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Cancun, Mexico, April8,2002
"The Economic Department's Role" [in accounting education],Associationof Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Cancun, Mexico,April9, 2002
"The Labor Market Process," First Annual Convention of theFoundationfor Economic Education, Las Vegas, NV, May 3, 2002
"The Future of Unionism," First annual Convention of the FoundationforEconomic Education, Las Vegas, NV, May 3, 2002
"The EEOC and Religious Accomodation," Labor Issues WorkingGroupannual meeting, Las Vegas NV, July 15, 2002
"Business Ethics," Seminar on the State in a Civil Society,Foundationfor Economic Education, Irvington, NY, August 12, 2002.
"Minimum and Living Wages," Seminar on the State in a CivilSociety,Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY, August 13, 2002.
"Unions: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Seminar on the Stateina Civil Society, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY, August14,2002.
"Privatization and Its Enemies," Summer University, UniversityofMarseille at Aix, Aix en Provence, France, September 2, 2002.
"The Future of Unions," Summer University, University of MarseilleatAix, Aix en Provence, France, September 3, 2002.
"Discussant of "Prisoners' Dilemmas, Leadership, and the DestructiveGrowthin Government," by JR Clark and Dwight R. Lee, Southern EconomicAssociation,New Orleans, LA, November 24, 2002.
Director of Liberty Fund colloquium on "The Economics of WilliamH.Hutt", Chattanooga, TN, September 13 through September 16, 2003
Served as Chairman of the Program Committee for the regional meetingofthe Mont Pelerin Society in Chattanooga, TN, September 18 through September21,2003
Delivered four lectures over three days at Universidad Francisco Marroquin(UFM),Guatemala City, Guatemala, September 29 through October 1, 2003.Receivedhonorary appointment as Visiting Professor at UFM.
Delivered two lectures, "Who Protects the Worker?" and "CorporateSocialResponsibility," at the "Milton Friedman Seminar,"sponsoredby the Young America's Foundation, at the Reagan Ranch ConferenceCenter,Santa Barbara, CA, November 21-23, 2003.
"Unions and Government Employment," a presentation at conferencesponsoredby the Atlas Foundation, Fairfax, VA, and the Friedrich NaumannFoundation,Washington, DC, which took place April 20-21, 2004 in Miami,Florida.
"Government Employee Unionism v. Democracy," presentation givenat FreedomFest 2004 in Las Vegas, NV, May 15 2004.
"Creating an Optimal Labour Market in New Zealand", presentation given under the auspices of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, 16 September 2004, Wellington, New Zealand
"The Nonsense of Free Trade," presentation given under the auspices of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, 17 September 2004, Wellington, New Zealand
"Political Corruption of the English Language," presentation given under the auspices of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, 17 September 2004, Wellington, New Zealand
"Creating an Optimal Labour Market in New Zealand, presentation given under the auspices of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, 21 September 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand
"Misesian Economics of Labor," presentation given under the auspices of the Young America's Foundation, 25 September 2004, Santa Barbara, CA
"On Methodology in Economics," presentation given under the auspices of the Young America's Foundation, 26 September 2004, Santa Barbara, CA
"Political Abuse of the English Language," ACT Party Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, March 12, 2005
"Reflections on the US Labour Market," Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, March 15, 2005
"The US Labour Market: the Good and the Not So Good," Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra, Australia, March 16, 2005.
"Reflections on the US Labour Market," Australian Economics Society, Victoria Branch, Melbourne, Australia, March 17, 2005.
"The Folly of Minimum Wage Legislation," HR Nicholls Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, March 19, 2005.
"Reflections on the US Labour Market," HR Nicholls Society Conference Dinner, Melbourne, Australia, March 19, 2005.
"The US Labour Market: the Good and the Not So Good," Australian Economics Society, South Australia Branch, Adelaide, Australia, March 21, 2005.
"Political Abuse of the English Language," Centre for Independent Studies, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia, March 22, 2005.
"Reflections on the US Labour Market," Australian Business Economists, Sydney, Australia March 23, 2005.
"Labor Day Is Not Union Day," a Heritage Foundation Forum, "Free Choice for Workers," Washington, DC, September 1, 2005
"Testimony Supporting HR 500, The National Right to Work Act," House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment and Government Programs, September 8, 2005, Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC.
“Hayek on Spontaneous and Constructed Order in a Free Society,” Liberty Fund colloquium, March 2-5, 2006, La Jolla, CA,
“The Perils of Government Employee Unionism,” The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY August 11, 2006.
Chair of session on “Freedom and the Media in the 21st Century,” General Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, Guatemala City, Guatemala, November 8, 2006.