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Zusatztext `On the whole these papers are thoughtful! humane! and critical; any labour economist will find this collection much of interest.' - The Economic Journal Informationen zum Autor Kurt W Rothschild Klappentext This links theory to practice in the evaluation and criticism of the traditional belief that market forces achieve a satisfactory level of employment and income distribution, a notion long supported by mainstream economic theory until now. Zusammenfassung This links theory to practice in the evaluation and criticism of the traditional belief that market forces achieve a satisfactory level of employment and income distribution, a notion long supported by mainstream economic theory until now. Inhaltsverzeichnis A. Employment 1. Microeconomics of the Labour Market 2. Full Employment - A Special Situation? 3. Is There Such a Thing as Unemployment? 4. Is Structural Unemployment An Alibi For Economic Policy? 5. Disguised Discrimination and Search Unemployment 6. The Neglect of Employment in the International Order 7. Some Reflections on the Growth of Female Labour Supply and the Tertiary Sector B. Wages 8. Alternative Dimensions in the Theory of Wages 9. Wage Levels and Employment 10. Approaches to the Theory of Bargaining 11. Wages and Risk-Bearing 12. The Phillips Curve and All That 13. Stagflation: How Much of the Phillips Curve Survives? 14. Is There a Weitzman Miracle? C. Income Distribution 15. The Wage Share in Total Income 16. The Arithmetic and the Interpretation of Wage Shares 17. Some Recent Contributions to a Macroeconomic Theory of Income Distribution. 18. Different Approaches in Distribution Theory 19. Theme and Variations - Remarks on the Kaldorian Distribution Formula 20. Some Notes on Sydney Weintraub's Eclectic Theory of income shares 21. Inequality: Is Income Distribution an Adequate Measure? 22. A Just Distribution of Incomes: A Dilemma Between Ethics and Economics
