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The Political Economy Of Full Employment |
Edited by Philip Arestis, University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Fellow, Wolfson College, UK and Mike Marshall, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of East London, UK
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| 1995 |
296 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 880 3 |
£64.95 |
on-line discount
£58.46 |
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‘This is a collection of good papers addressing one of the compelling issues of our time.’
– Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, International Journal of Manpower
This timely volume features essays from an international group of economists which address issues relating to the objective of securing full employment. The contributors adopt a political economy approach that highlights the nature and significance of institutional change.
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Contents: Introduction: Obstacles to, and Strategies for, the Achievement of Full Employment 1. Obstacles to Full Employment in Capitalist Economies 2. Technological Unemployment 3. Assessing the Costs of Inflation and Unemployment 4. Thatcherism and Unemployment in the UK 5. Unemployment, Job Creation and Job Destruction in the UK Since 1979 6. Restructuring, Flexibility and the New Right in the US: the Political Economy of Plutocracy 7. High Wages, Enlightened Management and Economic Productivity 8. Wage-employment Determination in a Post-Keynesian World 9. Unemployment Experience and the Institutional Preconditions for Full Employment 10. Lessons from the Experience of the Swedish Model 11. Corporatism in Australia 12. Economic Development in the Industrialized Countries and the Prospects for Full Employment 13. European Monetary Integration and Unemployment in the Periphery Index
Contributors: E. Applebaum, P. Arestis, K. Bain, H. Hagemann, J. Halevi, A. Henley, P. Kriesler, M. Marshall, T.R. Michl, M. Perelman, P.A. Riach, M. Sawyer, R. Schettkat, F. Skuse, E. Tsakalotos, J. Wells
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