"How can we reduce unemployment? As this insightful and counterintuitive book shows, the surprising answer is inefficiency. Some of the most labor-intensive sectors of the economy, the author notes, are also the most inefficient. But this inefficiency is functional--rather than …
Economists and the governments they advise have based their macroeconomic policies on the idea of a natural rate of unemployment. Government policy that pushes the rate below this point--about 6 percent--is apt to trigger an accelerating rate of inflation that is hard to reverse…
The purpose of this book is to set out in a comprehensive, but succinct manner, the key points surrounding four economic issues that generate, today, much discussion and debate. These are the issues of growth, unemployment, distribution and government. It is aimed at an audience…
Eine zornige, leidenschaftliche Streitschrift gegen die zynische, menschenverachtende Weltwirtschaft und gegen die Lethargie und das Versagen der Politik vor dem Skandal der Massenarbeitslosigkeit.
Ein europäischer Bestseller im richtigen Augenblick: die leidenschaftliche Anklage gegen die Übermacht der Wirtschaft, gegen das Versagen der Politik, ihre Gleichgültigkeit vor dem Skandal der Massenarbeitslosigkeit.
