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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
9/11, Foreign Threats, Political Legitimacy, and Democratic Social Institutions 3 3 3 3 5 9 14 14
Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress and Epidemic Obesity 1 2 8 93 8 15 41 226
Degraded Work, Declining Community, Rising Inequality, and the Transformation of the Protestant Ethic in America: 1870-1930 2 2 2 2 6 14 19 19
Government Is Whose Problem? 4 12 109 109 8 20 32 32
Household Saving, Class Identitiy, and Conspicuous Consumption 3 3 11 165 6 12 47 448
Increasing Inequality, Status Insecurity, Ideology, and the Financial Crisis of 2008 1 3 9 66 13 22 76 292
Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power and Environmental Devastation 1 2 6 35 4 10 41 103
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time 2 6 14 118 5 13 44 175
On Human Behavior, Human Fulfillment, and the Nature of the Workplace 2 2 3 88 4 9 38 184
Rising Inequality and the Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008 2 4 18 178 8 20 81 201
Rising Inequality and the Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008 2 6 20 201 8 17 66 178
The Growth Trap, Ecological Devastation, and the Promise of Guaranteed Employment 1 1 2 2 3 8 15 15
Unemployment exacts a high cost to its victims, not only in lost income, but also in terms of quality of life (insecurity, depression, abandoned families, divorce, suicide, poorer health). It also exacts a high cost to society in terms of lost output, foregone tax revenue, depreciating human capital, and increased costs of welfare, crime, and health care. Yet modern wealthy societies have, principally for the sake of price stability and to avoid the budget costs of a full remedy, chosen to tolerate a substantial level of permanent unemployment. This article explores the moral conditions of this social choice and its rationality in terms of social welfare. It makes and develops support for two claims: society’s tolerance of involuntary unemployment is morally wrong, and it is socially and economically irrational. It concludes that government should guarantee employment by serving as employer of last resort and where appropriate provide for retraining 0 1 3 46 2 5 21 201
Wage Stagnation, Rising Inequality and the Financial Crisis of 2008 3 6 10 10 5 22 36 36
Total Working Papers 27 53 218 1,116 85 196 571 2,124


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
An economic response to the threat of nuclear war 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 7
Creative destruction and labor's options 0 0 1 5 1 2 3 14
Creative destruction and labor's options 0 0 1 1 0 3 4 4
Did US labor's post-World War II successes lead to its subsequent woes? 0 1 1 8 0 1 1 45
Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power, and Environmental Devastation 0 1 1 1 1 7 9 9
Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic Obesity 0 1 2 13 0 3 10 48
Keynesian economics and Economists’ views on the state 0 0 12 37 0 0 18 63
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time 0 1 4 6 1 3 17 34
The Growth Trap, Ecological Devastation, and the Promise of Guaranteed Employment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling 0 0 0 8 3 5 16 58
The Scope and Promising Future of Social Economics 0 0 0 43 1 3 8 161
The methodology of W. Arthur Lewis's development economics: Economics as pedagogy 0 0 8 58 1 1 12 153
Total Journal Articles 0 4 30 183 8 28 98 596


Statistics updated 2013-05-03