The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory Realizing Keynes’s Labor Standard /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murray, Michael J. (Editor), Forstater, Mathew (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Labor economics.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economic Policy.

The contributors to this edited collection argue that a flexible Job Guarantee program able to react to an economy’s fluctuating need for work would stabilize the labor standard, the value of employment in relation to money. During economic downturns, the program would expand to provide more public...