The job guarantee and modern money theory realizing Keynes's labor standard /

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 pu...

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Other Authors: Murray, Michael J., Forstater, Mathew, 1961-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 228 pages).
Series: Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Goal-Oriented Taxation: A Brief Discussion of the Living-Space Tax
  • 2. Public Policy for Working People
  • 3. The Job Guarantee: A Superior Buffer Stock Option for Government Price Stabilization
  • 4. The Employer of Last Resort for a Capital-Poor Economy
  • 5. The Job Guarantee and Eurozone Stabilization
  • 6. How to Fight Unemployment with the Minsky Alternative in Italy and in the EU
  • 7. Paltamo Full Employment Experiment in Finland: A Neo-chartalist Job Guarantee Pilot Program?
  • 8. Financial Sovereignty and the Possibility of Full Employment in Saudi Arabia
  • 9. Who Owns the Intellectual Fruits of Job Guarantee Labor?; Rohan Grey.