In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump. The stigma of failure to deal with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions. This book provides perspectives on the unemployment problem.

In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only by the Great Slump. Neo-conservative policies, which replaced traditional Keynesian remedies, have been no more successful in halting the inexorable increase in unemployment: the stigma of failure to deal with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions from Conservative to Liberal to Social-Democratic. New perspectives on the unemployment problem are needed and this book provides them.

Introduction - List of Participants - PART 1 THEORETICAL BARRIERS TO FULL EMPLOYMENT - Wage Costs and Employment: the Sraffian View
A.Roncaglia, Comment
J.Schneider - The Theory of Demand and Supply of Labour: The Post-Keynesian View
J.A.Kregel, Comment
R.A.Hart - New Information Theoretic Approaches to Labour Market Theory
E.Streissler, Comment
K.Rothschild - PART 2 FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FISCAL POLICY - Financial Markets, Investment and Employment
P.Davidson, Comments
S.Biasco &
M.Sawyer - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Keynes-Kalecki Tradition
A.Guger &
E.Walterskirchen, Comments
B.Holmlund &
H-P.Spahn - PART 3 PUBLIC LABOUR MARKET POLICY - The Role of Manpower Policy in the Swedish Model
R.Meidner, Comments
W.R.Dymond &
G.Schmid - PART 4 WELFARE STATE REGULATION, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT - The Welfare State and Jobs
R.Delorme, Comments
M.Miegel, C.Buchtemann &
G.Voruba - Industrial Relations and Unemployment: The Case for Flexible Corporatism
D.Soskice, Comment
W.Streeck - New Technologies and Employment in the Eighties: From Science and Technology to Macroeconomic Modelling
R.Boyer, Comment
A.Sorge - Environmental Problems and Employment Opportunities
B.Schefold, Comments
P.Nijkamp &
K.Zimmerman - PART 5 THE INTERPLAY OF ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS - The Interplay between Institutional and Material Factors
N.Georgescu-Roege, Comments
F.W.Scharpf &
M.Salvati - PART 6 A SUMMING UP AND CONCLUSIONS - New Lines of Research on the Question of Full Employment
J.Steindl - Index