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Record Nr.

UNISA996588063603316

Autore

Vedder Richard K.

Titolo

Out of Work : Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America / / Richard K Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway ; foreword by Martin Bronfenbrenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York University Press, , [1997]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©[1997]

ISBN

0-8147-8846-7

Edizione

[Updated edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GallawayLowell E <1930-> (Lowell Eugene)

Disciplina

331.13/7973/0904

Soggetti

Unemployment

Employment (Economic theory)

Economic history

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Labor & Industrial Relations

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Labor

Unemployment - United States - History - 20th century

History

USA

United States

United States Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Independent Institute book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Martin Bronfenbrenner -- Preface to the updated edition / Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway -- Preface to the first edition / Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway -- 1. The unemployment century -- 2. Unemployment in theory -- 3. The neoclassical/Austrian approach: an overview -- 4. The Gilded Age -- 5. From New Era to New Deal -- 6. The banking crisis and the labor market -- 7. The New Deal -- 8. The impossible dream come true -- 9. The gentle time -- 10. The Camelot years -- 11. "Pride goeth before a fall" -- 12. The winds of change -- 13. The natural rate of unemployment -- 14. Who bears the burden of unemployment? -- 15. Unemployment and the state -- 16.



Afterword -- Appendix A. The extended theoretical model -- Appendix B. The technical aspects of the statistical analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.