Heterodox
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...
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When the governments in the advanced nations abandoned full employment as an overarching macroeconomic objective, and instead, starting pursuing what I have called full employability, they stopped seeing unemployment as a policy target (to be minimised) and began using it as a policy tool to suppress inflation. As mass unemployment rose, the politics were massaged by the mainstream of my profession who claimed that the level of unemployment that constituted full employment had risen (this...
Read More »Lars P. Syll — Abba Lerner and the nonsense called ‘Ricardian equivalence’
Abba Lerner versus Robert Barro.Lars P. Syll’s BlogAbba Lerner and the nonsense called ‘Ricardian equivalence’Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
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