The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory, 1st ed. 2017 Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity Series
Langue : Anglais
Coordonnateurs : Murray Michael J., Forstater Mathew
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 public sector jobs in response to private sector layoffs. It would then contract when economic growth offered private sector employment opportunities. This flexible full employment program would create a balanced, perpetually active labor force, providing the macroeconomic stability necessary to define a functioning labor standard.
Just as the gold standard measured the worth of money against gold reserves, John Maynard Keynes argued, so a labor standard ought to measure the value of money in terms of its labor equivalent. However, he failedto account for the fact that, unlike a gold standard, a labor standard does not have any kind of surety that money will continue to match its value in paid work over time. Together, the contributors argue that full employment would provide this missing security and allow authorities to define the value equivalencies of money and labor, the way that money once represented its exact equivalent in gold.
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.
Michael J. Murray is Associate Professor of Economics at Bemidji State University, USA, and a Research Scholar at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He co-edits the American Review of Political Economy and is co-editor of four volumes on the job guarantee. Murray's research focuses on public policies targeting the dual problems of unemployment and poverty. He also studies production theory, structural and technological change, and its impacts on employment.
Contributors
Lorenzo Esposito, Bank of Italy, Milan, Italy
Scott Fullwiler, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Rohan Grey, Columbia Law School, USA
James Juniper, University of Newcastle, Australia
Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University, USA
Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Scott L.B. McConnell, Eastern Oregon University, USA
William Mitchell, University of Newcastle, Australia
Edward J. Nell, The New School, USA
Timothy P. Sharpe, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Martin J. Watts, University of Newcastle, AustraliaPromotes formalizing the equivalence of money for labor Applies money theory to the value of labor Proposes that full employment will help define a functioning labor standard
Date de parution : 05-2018
Ouvrage de 228 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 02-2017
Ouvrage de 228 p.
14.8x21 cm
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