After the War--full Employment
Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1943
Category : United States
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Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1943
Category : United States
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Author : Thomas Nixon Carver
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Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Full employment policies
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Unemployed
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Author : Alvin Harvey HANSEN
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1943
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Author : Alvin Harvey Hansen
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Full employment policies
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Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : John W. Scoville
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : David Gahr
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : William H. Beveridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317569784
Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce. This book discusses how this goal might be achieved, beginning with the thesis that because individual employers are not capable of creating full employment, it must be the responsibility of the state. Beveridge claimed that the upward pressure on wages, due to the increased bargaining strength of labour, would be eased by rising productivity, and kept in check by a system of wage arbitration. The cooperation of workers would be secured by the common interest in the ideal of full employment. Alternative measures for achieving full employment included Keynesian-style fiscal regulation, direct control of manpower, and state control of the means of production. The impetus behind Beveridge's thinking was social justice and the creation of an ideal new society after the war. The book was written in the context of an economy which would have to transfer from wartime direction to peace time. It was then updated in 1960, following a decade where the average unemployment rate in Britain was in fact nearly 1.5%.