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Setting wages isn¿t an exact science, but we like to think that our workplace performance provides an objective basis for pay. Yoüre Paid What Yoüre Worth offers a bold theory to the contrary, arguing that pay is decided in contests over interests and ideals¿that social conflicts, not economic metrics, determine who gets how much.

A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we're paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis. Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job, with the precise level determined by your performance, then you're paid market value. And who can question something as objective and impersonal as the market? That, at least, is ho...

From wages to elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. Today, the only thing big about Big Labor is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the repercussions of labor¿s collapse, particularly in the battle against inequality.