Access Statistics for Jon D. Wisman
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12 months |
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12 months |
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| 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 |
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