Introduction : the living wage -- Sustainability : subsistence, necessities, and unions -- Capability : work and wages, virtue and skill -- Externality, community and wages -- Lessons from the history of economic thought

This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in addition to Keynesian economics, the idea of a living wage was also part of the background leading up to the Employment Act. The Act mandated that the president prepare an Economic Report on the state of the...