The Pursuit of Economic Development


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This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers. It examines the impacts of a wide range of state and local characteristics—such as low taxes, high-skilled workforce, reliance on manufacturing, and even nice weather—on the economic development of U.S. regions. The author provides a detailed account for each factor’s impact on the growth of good jobs. The research focuses on U.S. metropolitan areas and states, tracking employment and income change in these regions from 1990 to the near present. While providing numerous best principles for state and regional policy, the author uncovers the keys to supporting high-paying U.S. jobs in an important book that will prove invaluable to elected officials, economic development practitioners, and students interested in the pursuit of economic development.




The Great Inflation


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Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.




Back to Full Employment


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Economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States needs to try to implement full employment and how it can help the economy.




Employment and Human Rights


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Intellectual history is placed in the broadest possible contexts of economic, political, and social contexts.




Full Employment Abandoned


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This book by William Mitchell and Joan Muysken is both important and timely. It deals with the issue of the abandonment of full employment as an objective of economic policy in the OECD countries. It argues persuasively that macroeconomic policy has been restrictive over the recent, and not so recent past, and has produced substantial open and disguised unemployment. But the authors show how a job guarantee policy can enable workers, who would otherwise be unemployed, to earn a wage and not depend on welfare support. If such a policy is fully supported by appropriate fiscal and monetary programmes, it can create full employment with price stability, which the authors label as a Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Buffer Employment Ratio (NAIBER). This book is essential reading for any one wishing to understand how we can return to full employment as the normal state of affairs. Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK This book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift from involuntary to natural rate conceptions of unemployment since the 1960s has driven an ideological backlash against Keynesian policy interventions. The authors contend that neo-liberal governments now consider unemployment to be an individual problem rather than a reflection of systemic policy failure and that they are content to use unemployment as a policy instrument to control inflation and coerce the unemployed with work tests and compliance programmes rather than provide sufficient employment. They present a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of this policy approach, with a refreshing new framework for understanding modern monetary economies. The authors show that the reinstatement of full employment with price stability is a viable policy goal that can be achieved by activist fiscal policy through the introduction of a Job Guarantee. Full Employment Abandoned will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students and researchers of economics and politics with an interest in macroeconomic policy and the labour market, particularly unemployment and neo-liberal policy frameworks.




Contemporary Employment Relations


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Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of industrial and employment relations, personnel and human resource management, this work offers an original, accessible, and critical approach to understanding employment relations.







The Path to Full Employment


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Reality bites: employment policy in a measurement vacuum / Steven Barrett ; More jobs and better jobs? / John Burgess ; Structural change and unemployment in regional Australia-- reflections on a case study of north-east New South Wales / Jeremy Buultjens, Dennis Howard & Steve Moffat ; Labour underutilisation in Australia / Ellen Carlson & William Mitchell ; False promise or false premise? Evaluating the Job Network / Sally Cowling & William Mitchell ; Home ownership and unemployment: does the Oswald thesis hold for Australian regions? / Paul Flatau et al. ; Working hours, productivity, participation and unemployment: a regional investigation of the UK / David Harvie, Bruce Philp & Gary Slater ; Re-engineering and managerialism: the tabula rasa approach to policy and administration / Jim Jose & Victor Quirk ; Regional innovation policies and guaranteed employment strategies / James Juniper ; Welfare dynamics of mature age customers: an analysis using the FaCS longitudinal data set / Anil Kumar & John De Maio ; Risk technology in Australia: the role of the Job Seeker Classification Instrument in employment services / Catherine McDonald, Greg Marston & Amma Buckley ; Public debt management and Australia's macroeconomic priorities / William Mitchell & Warren Mosler ; Investment asymmetries, inflation and unemployment / William Mitchell & Joan Muysken ; Fiscal policy and financial fragility: why macroeconomic policy is failing / William Mitchell & Luke Reedman ; Does receiving a breach penalty from Centrelink coerce unemployed people to comply with the government's wishes? / Simon Schooneveldt & John Tomlinson ; The relevance of policies on pay to the pursuit of full employment / Greg Smith ; Employment outcomes for indigenous participants of vocational education and training programs--a comparison between urban, regional and remote locations in South Australia / Tom Stehlik ; The structuring power of the French new contracts of employment / Annabelle Stella-Caumel.




Working for Full Employment


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After more than twenty years of mass unemployment in Britain and throughout much of Europe can the aspiration of "jobs for all" once again become a reality? Working for Full Employment considers the feasibility of full employment in a modern market economy. The book is written by a group of experts who were pivotal in pushing full employment up the political agenda in the mid 1990's. They identify the hard choices which policy makers must face and discuss why full employment has been so elusive for the past twenty years. The authors examine: * The effects of new technology and increased trade * The increased participation of women in the labour market * The impact of labour market regulation on employment * Worksharing * How welfare reform can help the long term unemployed into jobs * The role of industrial policy * Reform of pay bargaining Well informed and accessible, this book is a valuable contribution to the developing debate on labour market policy.




The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics


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The Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.