书目名称 | The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory |
副标题 | Realizing Keynes’s L |
编辑 | Michael J. Murray,Mathew Forstater |
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概述 | Promotes formalizing the equivalence of money for labor.Applies money theory to the value of labor.Proposes that full employment will help define a functioning labor standard |
丛书名称 | Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity |
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描述 | The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more public sector jobs in response to private sector layoffs. It would then contract when economic growth offered private sector employment opportunities. This flexible full employment program would create a balanced, perpetually active labor force, providing the macroeconomic stability necessary to define a functioning labor standard..Just as the gold standard measured the worth of money against gold reserves, John Maynard Keynes argued, so a labor standard ought to measure the value of money in terms of its labor equivalent. However, he failedto account for the fact that, unlike a gold standard, a labor standard does not have any kind of surety that money will continue to match its value in paid work over time. Together, the contributors argue that full employment would provide this missing security and allow authorities to define the value equivalencies of money and labor, the way that money onc |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | finance; sovereign currency; Ricardian fiscal policy; unemployment buffer stock; complementary currency; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46442-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-83522-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-46442-8Series ISSN 2662-3765 Series E-ISSN 2662-3773 |
issn_series | 2662-3765 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |