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Wednesday and a short blog post. I regularly work for unions as an expert analyst/witness in their struggles to achieve wage justice with employers who are intent on paying as little as possible. Often these are private employers but at the moment I am helping a union with their campaign to win a reasonable wage increase against a state government. The logic deployed by the government in relation to their fiscal affairs and their wage setting behaviour is a classic demonstration of how neoliberalism has distorted any sense of reason and created self-fulfilling problems. So today, I will just introduce this issue – given how fascinating it is.... Bill Mitchell – billy blogOf course governments will be fiscally stretched if they define large surpluses as the normBill Mitchell | Professor
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: fiscal conservatism, fiscal liberalism, fiscal rule, Fiscal Sustainability, Functional Finance, Labor Market, MMT, Neoliberalism, public employment, sound finance, Unions, war caps
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Wednesday and a short blog post. I regularly work for unions as an expert analyst/witness in their struggles to achieve wage justice with employers who are intent on paying as little as possible. Often these are private employers but at the moment I am helping a union with their campaign to win a reasonable wage increase against a state government. The logic deployed by the government in relation to their fiscal affairs and their wage setting behaviour is a classic demonstration of how neoliberalism has distorted any sense of reason and created self-fulfilling problems. So today, I will just introduce this issue – given how fascinating it is.... Bill Mitchell – billy blogOf course governments will be fiscally stretched if they define large surpluses as the normBill Mitchell | Professor
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: fiscal conservatism, fiscal liberalism, fiscal rule, Fiscal Sustainability, Functional Finance, Labor Market, MMT, Neoliberalism, public employment, sound finance, Unions, war caps
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Wednesday and a short blog post. I regularly work for unions as an expert analyst/witness in their struggles to achieve wage justice with employers who are intent on paying as little as possible. Often these are private employers but at the moment I am helping a union with their campaign to win a reasonable wage increase against a state government. The logic deployed by the government in relation to their fiscal affairs and their wage setting behaviour is a classic demonstration of how neoliberalism has distorted any sense of reason and created self-fulfilling problems. So today, I will just introduce this issue – given how fascinating it is....Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Of course governments will be fiscally stretched if they define large surpluses as the norm
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia