Titlebook: Unemployment; Economic Perspective Guy Routh Book 1986 Guy Routh 1986 capitalism.development.economics.employment.John Maynard Keynes.Keyne

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Historical Development,Unemployment, in the sense in which we are using it, means being deprived of a job, a would-be employee in search of an employer. A slave cannot be unemployed, though he can be idle if he is given no work to do or if he can avoid it; nor can a serf, for his obligations are laid down by custom.

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Theory: Petty to Keynes,ned phenomena. Since the theories conflict, they challenge our critical faculties to distinguish between truth and error, and so construct a higher synthesis. I devote this chapter to propounding the basic theories, the next to presenting their modern counterparts, and Chapter 5 to bringing them to judgment.

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Introduction,ination leads to deepening mystery. Its pathology is complex, with social as well as economic ramifications. Accounts of Paradise make no mention of regular employment but depict a regime of eternal idleness, while in Hell sinners are in a state of full employment, perpetually stoking. So, from one

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Theory: Petty to Keynes,nments and electorates, or perhaps neutralised by counter-cures propounded by other theorists. But despite the fact that there is none that we can point to and say, ‘This is demonstrably true’, the theories must still be studied. From them we derive the vocabulary and systems of classification that

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Assessment of Current Theories, more bewildering. At the end of 1984, the economies of OECD countries continued to falter, with only the United States and Sweden showing clear signs of improvement. On the records of past trade cycles, improvement is long overdue. This may not be the fault of the economists, for much of their advi

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Summary,at enabled contrary views to co-exist. There followed a definition of unemployment, a note on various ways of measuring it, and a table showing the resulting statistics for unemployment (as defined) in various industrialised countries. We noted how rates varied between the principal OECD countries,

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Assessment of Current Theories,ce is ignored. But the varieties of advice tendered enable governments, as Lord Bauer observed, to select as advisers those economists that they know will advise them to do what they intend to do anyway (Bauer, 1984, p. 153).

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