M Paquette
Moderator Emeritus
Supply and demand, eh? I happen to know that large employers can play both the demand side (hiring&firing) and the supply side (available labor pool). It's not even hard.
There's the simple and direct approach of moving the jobs to where there is a large labor pool, and there are more subtle approaches to creating and maintaining large pools of available labor, ranging from the time-honored tradition of company towns, to modern approaches involving legislation and lobbying.
Free market economics don't work so well when the 'free' part is illusory.
There's the simple and direct approach of moving the jobs to where there is a large labor pool, and there are more subtle approaches to creating and maintaining large pools of available labor, ranging from the time-honored tradition of company towns, to modern approaches involving legislation and lobbying.
Free market economics don't work so well when the 'free' part is illusory.
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