Books by Ellen Frankel Paul

Comparable worth-the idea that women ought to be paid the same wages as men performing comparable although not the same jobs-has generated a firestorm of controversy. This analysis of the comparable worth debate takes up its pros and cons in an extraordinarily disciplined and fair-minded manner.

?Paul argues that the demise of laissez-faire as a tenet of political economists was due to a change in moral perspective rather than a change in pure economic theory. The dichotomy between morals and theory was made possible because of the gradual but successful struggle to separate positive from normative economics, the excellent discussion of which is the book's major contribution.?-Library Journal

Arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest priority, the author challenges one of the dominant trends of the past half century: the erosion of property rights via zoning and land use restrictions, carried on by government exercising its 'police power' or promoting 'the public interest'.