Full employment

Full employment: a pledge betrayed

by Grieve Smith, John

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John Grieve Smith traces the origins of postwar full employment policies in the experience of the interwar years and the work of Keynes and Beveridge. He reviews the successful achievement of full employment after the war and its subsequent abandonment as the Keynesian consensus gave way to the new, monetarist-inspired, orthodoxy. The book puts forward alternative proposals for expansionary policies, and for international financial reform. It is written throughout in terms accessible to both th…

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  • Full title :Full employment : a pledge betrayed / John Grieve Smith.

Summary

John Grieve Smith traces the origins of postwar full employment policies in the experience of the interwar years and the work of Keynes and Beveridge. He reviews the successful achievement of full employment after the war and its subsequent abandonment as the Keynesian consensus gave way to the new, monetarist-inspired, orthodoxy. The book puts forward alternative proposals for expansionary policies, and for international financial reform. It is written throughout in terms accessible to both the layperson and the expert.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1997.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1997.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 262 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780230372382, 0230372384, 0333687361, 9780333687369, 033368737X, 9780333687376
  • oclc:ocn759105619
  • LC Classification:HD5765.A6
  • Dewey Decimal:339.50941

Table of Contents

A Pledge Betrayed -- Unemployment and Economic Policy before 1939 -- The Birth of Full Employment -- The Years of Full Employment -- Transition and Revolution -- Demand Management -- Pay and Inflation -- Jobs and People -- The Capacity Problem -- Our European Future -- A Global Payments Strategy -- The Way Ahead -- Index.

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Subjects

Arbeidsmarkt BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor Economic policy Economic theory & philosophy -- Postwar… Economics emploi Emploi -- Politique gouvernementale -- … employing Employment (Economic theory) Employment & unemployment -- Postwar pe… Full employment policies Full employment policies -- Great Brita… Grande-Bretagne -- Politique économique Great Britain Great Britain -- Economic Policy International finance -- Postwar period… Keynésianisme Manpower policy Manpower policy -- Great Britain Plein emploi -- Grande-Bretagne

Writers

Grieve Smith, John

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