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Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in … macroeconomic policy in the USA consisted of a dual approach of using a living wage to increase consumption with higher wages, and …
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This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread believe that deflation would … be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several … myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the widespread deflation phobia that serves to justify expansionary …
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1 Introduction: The Economics of a Living Wage -- 2 The Living Wage from World War I through the Great Depression -- 3 Planning a Living Wage: The NIRA -- 4 A Useful and Remunerative Job: The National Labor Relations Act -- 5 Social Security: Protection from Old Age and Unemployment -- 6 The...
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This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex and multiple causes of the Great Recession, delineates the diversity in the macroeconomic and labour market consequences, and highlights the...
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Zukunft gestalten: Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftspolitik -- So läuft es rund: Der Wirtschaftskreislauf. … Nachfrage, der Umgang mit Geld, das Gesetz der Massenproduktion bis hin zu Wirtschaftspolitik und jüngster Finanzkrise … gestalten: Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftspolitik So läuft es rund: Der Wirtschaftskreislauf Die Autorin Kunigunde Kalus war 20 …
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, France; and Visiting Scholar at Brown University and the University of California (Berkeley), USA. He was the first president …
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The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought
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This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...
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The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...
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This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013. The book also aims to examine the effect of labor policy reforms on individual, household and...
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