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Book SynopsisThis 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 politicP>As well as offering a detailed empirical investigation of the unemployment experience in advanced countries, the book makes a critical evaluation of New Right economic policy making in the UK and the US, and examines the main international and domestic obstacles to the achievement of full employment, the prospects for job creation in the UK, and the impact of technological change.
Trade Review’This is a collection of good papers addressing one of the compelling issues of our time.’Table of ContentsContents: 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
