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This book by William Mitchell and Joan Muysken is both important and timely. It deals with the issue of the abandonment of full employment as an objective of economic policy in the OECD countries. It argues persuasively that macroeconomic policy has been
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July 21, 2017
Great book pointing out the failure of successive Australian governments to deal with unemployment. Mitchell demolishes the neo liberal idea that we need a buffer stock of unemployment to control inflation and then presents a comprehensive plan for full employment using the Job Guarantee. This is economics that serves people rather than the other way around.
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William Mitchell, Professor of Economics, Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Australia and Joan Muysken, Professor of Economics, CofFEE-Europe, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
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