How Unions Coerce Workers to Withhold Production, Video Game Composing Edition

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06/19/2014 Mises Wire Christopher Westley

Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory , who composed the music for the acclaimed video games flOw and Journey, among many other accomplishments, discusses his fight with the American Federation of Musicians and why he refuses to live in fear. (H/T Nikki Finke.)

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