Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions have changed from ancient times to the present. He deals with what economists and philosophers have written about the problem over the centuries, with what public officials, heads of state, and politicians have said and done about it, with how effective the various "cures" have been, and with the situation today"--Book jacket. |
Contents
In the Beginning | 12 |
The Struggle for Full Employment | 31 |
The Great Transition | 57 |
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Adam Smith American argument attitudes Beatrice Webb beggars begging Beveridge Booth Britain British business cycle called capital capitalist causes of unemployment century chômage classical economists competition consumer consumption countercyclical cyclical demand depression E. P. Thompson early economic effects efforts employed employers English Poor Law example existence expanding families France French full employment German growth Hobson Ibid idea idle income increase industrial inflation insisted investment J. A. Hobson J. M. Keynes jobless John Maynard Keynes Keynes Keynes's Keynesian large numbers Lazarsfeld less living London Malthus manufacturing ment million modern moral organized output Paris percent period persons Pigou ployed ployment political population poverty principle problem production public-works programs reason reduce unemployment result revolution Ricardo social society statistics stimulate suffering theory tion trade unem unemployed unemployed workers unemployment insurance unions wealth Webb workhouse writers wrote York