How Can There be Full Employment After the War?
Author : Thomas Nixon Carver
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Full employment policies
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Nixon Carver
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Full employment policies
ISBN :
Author : Alvin Harvey Hansen
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1942
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : William H. Beveridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 37,3 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%.
Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262017571
Economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States needs to try to implement full employment and how it can help the economy.
Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Unemployed
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Author : Sean Glynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429681178
First published in 1987. This volume explores the inter-war unemployment problem and the development of economic and social policy in relation to that problem. Contemporary policies and levels of unemployment can only be compared with the inter-war period and in recent years economists and other commentators have increasingly turned their attention to the 1930s. This book is written by a group of expert historians and policy analysts who have been in the forefront of recent research. In particular, new insights into economic policy which have come from the release of cabinet and departmental papers at The Public Record Office are revealed. Recent economic theory is also taken into account and the findings question established views on many grounds. New economic lessons from the 1930s are suggested and some astonishing similarities to the 1980s and demonstrated. This work will be essential reading for students of modern British history and economic and social history as well as economic policy and government and politics.
Author : Mark R. Wilson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812248333
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of democracy." Crucial in this effort were business leaders. Some of these captains of industry went to Washington to coordinate the mobilization, while others led their companies to churn out weapons. In this way, the private sector won the war—or so the story goes. Based on new research in business and military archives, Destructive Creation shows that the enormous mobilization effort relied not only on the capacities of private companies but also on massive public investment and robust government regulation. This public-private partnership involved plenty of government-business cooperation, but it also generated antagonism in the American business community that had lasting repercussions for American politics. Many business leaders, still engaged in political battles against the New Deal, regarded the wartime government as an overreaching regulator and a threatening rival. In response, they mounted an aggressive campaign that touted the achievements of for-profit firms while dismissing the value of public-sector contributions. This probusiness story about mobilization was a political success, not just during the war, but afterward, as it shaped reconversion policy and the transformation of the American military-industrial complex. Offering a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of the "arsenal of democracy," Destructive Creation also suggests how the struggle to define its heroes and villains has continued to shape economic and political development to the present day.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Full employment policies
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Labor supply
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Author : Stephen Kemp Bailey
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Law
ISBN :
Describes the narrative "Full Employment Bill" from its birth in January 1945 to President Truman's signing in February 1946 to illustrate the formulation of public policy in the legislature.