Spread the Work Schemes (On the Other Hand Ep. 8)

Episode eight of "On the Other Hand" explores chapters eight, nine, and ten of Henry Hazlitt's Economics in one Lesson. This episode explains why the goal of government policy should be to raise productivity, not employment, because employment will follow from productivity in any case.

This series of 18 short videos (being released one-per-week from May 2011) was produced in collaboration with Access Communications in Regina.

Related Links:

• The Lesson (On the Other Hand – Episode 1)

• The Broken Window (On the Other Hand – Episode 2)

• The ‘Blessings’ of Destruction (On the Other Hand – Episode 3)

• Public Works Mean Taxes (On the Other Hand – Episode 4)

• Taxes Discourage Production (On the Other Hand – Episode 5)

• Credit Diverts Production (On the Other Hand – Episode 6)

• The ‘Curse’ of Machinery (On the Other Hand – Episode 7)

• Who’s ‘Protected’ by Tariffs? (On the Other Hand – Episode 9)

• Saving the ‘X’ Industry (On the Other Hand – Episode 10)

• How the Price System Works (On the Other Hand – Episode 11)