Coping with Global Unemployment: Putting People Back to Work

by John Eatwell

Overview

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon. It suggests there are solutions if society is willing to take the steps necessary to find and implement them. Focus is on the persistent unemployment in the USA and the UK.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563245817
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1995
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Unemployment on a World Scale, John Eatwell; Chapter 2 America’s Unaccountable Admiration for Mrs. Thatcher’s Economics, Wynne Godley; Chapter 3 Convergence, Technological Competition, and Transmission of Long-run Unemployment, Alice H. Amsden; Chapter 4 Free Trade, Unemployment, and Economic Policy, Anwar M. Shaikh; Chapter 5 Unemployment, Capital, And Unskilled Labor, David Schwartzman; Chapter 6 Wageless Recovery, Wageless Growth? Prospects for U.S. Workers in the 1990s, David M. Gordon; Chapter 7 Stagnation, Volatility, and the Changing Composition of Aggregate Demand, Edward Nell; Chapter 8 Full Employment and the Inflation Constraint, Thomas I. Palley; Chapter 9 Stimulating Global Employment Growth, Lance Taylor; Chapter 10 Reflections on a Sad State of Affairs, Robert Heilbroner;

Editorial Reviews

Contributors trace the origins of international unemployment to developments in the international trading and financial system since 1973, and suggest solutions and strategies for full employment in the UK, Europe, and the US. They conclude that the history of the international economy lends no support to the present model of a self- adjusting market system. Based on papers presented at the December 1993 New School Conference on Unemployment. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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