The Economics of Labor Law - Keith N. Hylton

The Economics of Labor Law

By: Keith N. Hylton

Hardcover | 22 November 2024

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In terms familiar to economists, this book provides a positive theory of labor law and dissects the fundamental theoretical issues that shape labor law doctrine. It investigates the deep economic tensions influencing judicial opinions in labor law, and how these can predict the outcomes of relevant legal doctrine and determine whether it accomplishes its regulatory goals.



Keith Hylton explores major philosophical approaches in the labor movement as well as the economic pressures that have impacted the growth of unions and the evolution of labor law. Hylton examines core issues including union organization, labor bargaining, labor law successorship, and the interaction between labor and antitrust laws. He questions whether the decline of unions will change employment and labor laws, and whether it is possible for the law to reverse or slow the decline in private sector union density. The central thesis of the book is that much of labor law doctrine is economically efficient, minimizing the costs of the bargaining relationship between the employer and the union.



The Economics of Labor Law is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of labor and employment law, and law and economics. Practitioners will also benefit from its detailed account of how economics can provide a more solid foundation for labor law doctrines.

Industry Reviews
'Keith Hylton's The Economics of Labor Law marks an important advance in the teaching and study of US labor law. Economic analysis is neither left nor right. Hylton's book advances understanding of how various labor law doctrines have operated in practice and analyzes cogently whether the rules in place have created the right incentives for labor and management.' -- Samuel Estreicher, New York University School of Law, US
'Professor Hylton has put together the most comprehensive and sophisticated economic analysis of American labor law to date. Although thoroughly wedded to the neoclassical model, Professor Hylton's insights are both interesting and useful and have to be accounted for in current policy debates. I would recommend this book to any policy-maker, academic or student with an interest in the larger economic implications of American labor law.' -- Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Indiana University, US

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