Coping with Global Unemployment - Putting People Back to Work

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.

List 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;

About the author

Eatwell, John

Product details

• Authors: John Eatwell, Eatwell John
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1995
• EAN: 9781563245817
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-581-7
• No. of pages: 253
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment