Barriers to Full Employment

In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump. Neo-conservative policies, which replaced traditional Keynesian remedies, have been no more successful in halting the inexorable increase in unemployment: the stigma of failure to deal with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions from Conservative to Liberal to Social-Democratic. New perspectives on the unemployment problem are needed and this book provides them.

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Introduction - List of Participants - PART 1 THEORETICAL BARRIERS TO FULL EMPLOYMENT - Wage Costs and Employment: the Sraffian View; A.Roncaglia, Comment; J.Schneider - The Theory of Demand and Supply of Labour: The Post-Keynesian View; J.A.Kregel, Comment; R.A.Hart - New Information Theoretic Approaches to Labour Market Theory; E.Streissler, Comment; K.Rothschild - PART 2 FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FISCAL POLICY - Financial Markets, Investment and Employment; P.Davidson, Comments; S.Biasco & M.Sawyer - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Keynes-Kalecki Tradition; A.Guger & E.Walterskirchen, Comments; B.Holmlund & H-P.Spahn - PART 3 PUBLIC LABOUR MARKET POLICY - The Role of Manpower Policy in the Swedish Model; R.Meidner, Comments; W.R.Dymond & G.Schmid - PART 4 WELFARE STATE REGULATION, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - The Welfare State and Jobs; R.Delorme, Comments; M.Miegel, C.Buchtemann & G.Voruba - Industrial Relations and Unemployment: The Case for Flexible Corporatism; D.Soskice, Comment; W.Streeck - New Technologies and Employment in the Eighties: From Science and Technology to Macroeconomic Modelling; R.Boyer, Comment; A.Sorge - Environmental Problems and Employment Opportunities; B.Schefold, Comments; P.Nijkamp & K.Zimmerman - PART 5 THE INTERPLAY OF ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS - The Interplay between Institutional and Material Factors; N.Georgescu-Roege, Comments; F.W.Scharpf & M.Salvati - PART 6 A SUMMING UP AND CONCLUSIONS - New Lines of Research on the Question of Full Employment; J.Steindl - Index