Macroeconomic Policy and a Living Wage The Employment Act as Redistributive Economics, 1944-1969 /

• Main Author: Stabile, Donald R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Labor economics.; Economic History.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.; Labor Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.

"Donald Stabile provides a fascinating history of the economic and political debates leading up to, and following, the Employment Act of 1946. Contrary to common understanding, Stabile argues that there were strong tensions between New Dealers and Keynesians, including around their vision of t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Hybrid System of Redistributive Economics
• 2. Background of the Employment Act I: A Living Wage
• 3. Background of the Employment Act II: Keynesian Economics
• 4. Background of the Employment Act III: An Economic Bill of Rights
• 5. The Political Economy of the Employment Act of 1946
• 6. Kennedy's New Frontier: Tax Cuts and Wage Policy
• 7. The Age of Keynes in the Great Society
• 8. The Decline and Revival of a Living Wage.