Barriers to Full Employment : Papers From a Conference Sponsored by the Labour Market Policy Section of the International Institute of Management of the Wissenschaftszentrum of Berlin

In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump. Neo-conservative policies, which replaced traditional Keynesian remedies, have been no more successful in halting the inexorable increase in unemployment: the stigma of failure to deal with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions from Conservative to Liberal to Social-Democratic. New perspectives on the unemployment problem are needed and this book provides them. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Wage Costs and Employment: the Sraffian View....Pages 9-26 The Theory of Demand and Supply of Labour — The Post-Keynesian View....Pages 27-47 New Information Theoretic Approaches to Labour Market Theory....Pages 48-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Financial Markets, Investment and Employment....Pages 73-102 Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Keynes—Kalecki Tradition....Pages 103-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 The Role of Manpower Policy in the Swedish Model....Pages 143-174 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 The Welfare State and Jobs....Pages 177-211 Industrial Relations and Unemployment: The Case for Flexible Corporatism....Pages 212-232 New Technologies and Employment in the 1980s: From Science and Technology to Macroeconomic Modelling....Pages 233-272 Environmental Problems and Employment Opportunities....Pages 273-294 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 The Interplay Between Institutional and Material Factors: The Problem and its Status....Pages 297-339 Front Matter....Pages 341-341 New Lines of Research on the Question of Full Employment....Pages 343-350 Back Matter....Pages 351-362 In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump. The stigma of failure to deal with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions. This book provides perspectives on the unemployment problem Edited By J.a. Kregel, Egon Matzner, Alessandro Roncaglia. Includes Bibliographies And Index.