Real Wages Up, Not Down – Economists Fight by Garrick van Buren Comments Off on Real Wages Up, Not Down – Economists Fight A biased New York Times article on wages being down gets a fisking: “What keeps my wages high (and yours) is our alternatives…What sets workers wages are the wages of those alternatives…Workers are better educated than ever. That is why I believe that compensation, properly measured, is higher than it was five or ten or twenty or thirty years ago.” – Russel Roberts Thanks to Tyler @ Marginal Revolution for the pointer.