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The Politics of Unemployment
1987
by
Sennholz
Economic Policy
Hans F. Sennholz
Unemployment
Business Cycles
Inflation
Taxation
Trade Unions
Protectionism
Mises Institute
Effective Demand
Great Depression
Interventionism
John Maynard Keynes
Capital Consumption
Capital Accumulation
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx
Property Rights
Thomas Malthus
Division of Labor
Social Policy
Labor Law
Productivity
Human Capital
Labor Mobility
Minimum Wage
Adam Smith
Consumer Sovereignty
Jean-Baptiste Say
Credit Expansion
Coercion
Labor Market
Price Controls
Keynesian Economics
Wages
Poverty
Market Process
Insurance
New Deal
Thomas Aquinas
Welfare State
Paul Samuelson
John Law
Mercantilism
Phillips Curve
Say's Law
Monetary Policy
Joseph Schumpeter
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Overproduction
Capitalism
Exploitation
Income Distribution
Underconsumption
Austrian School
Friedrich A. Hayek
Interest Rates
Ludwig von Mises
Malinvestment
Monetary Theory
Wage Rigidity
Federal Reserve
Gold Standard
Money Supply
Fiscal Policy
Social Justice
Alfred Marshall
Collective Bargaining
John Stuart Mill
Capital Movements
Marginal Utility
Investment
Economic Calculation
Comparative Advantage
David Ricardo
Free Trade
Socialism
Sovereignty
Economic History
Entrepreneurship
Standard of Living
Macroeconomics
Stagflation
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk
Milton Friedman
Table of Contents · 80 segments
1
Front Matter and Publication Details
theoretical
2
Table of Contents
theoretical
3
Table of Contents (Chapters 14-20)
theoretical
4
Preface
theoretical
5
Acknowledgments
theoretical
6
Introduction: The Schools of Unemployment Thought
theoretical
7
Part One: Work, Wages and Unemployment - Chapter 1: The Supply of Labor
theoretical
8
Capital, Immigration, and the Participation Rate
essay
9
Population Growth: Malthus vs. Capitalism
chapter
10
The Participation Rate and Demographic Shifts
chapter
11
Hours of Work and the Fallacy of Spreading the Work
chapter
12
Education and Labor: Investment or Consumption?
chapter
13
Markets and Labor Mobility
chapter
14
The Demand for Labor and Marginal Productivity
chapter
15
Temporary vs. Institutional Unemployment
chapter
16
Institutional Unemployment and Minimum Wage Effects
chapter
17
The Economic Consequences of Minimum Wage Mandates
essay
18
Consumer Sovereignty and Benefit Mandates
essay
19
Production Barriers and Price Controls
chapter
20
Inflation and Labor Unions as Institutional Barriers
essay
21
Part Two: Political Barriers - The History and Impact of Minimum Wages
chapter
22
The Victims and Beneficiaries of Wage Legislation
essay
23
Extension of Coverage and Indexing the Minimum Wage
essay
24
Employer Offsets and Political Incentives
essay
25
The Davis-Bacon Act: Racism and Economic Disintegration
chapter
26
Benefit Mandates and the Illusion of Employer Gratuities
chapter
27
Mandated Benefits and the Shifting Process
theoretical
28
Old and New Benefits: The Process of Economic Adjustment
chapter
29
Social Security and Payroll Taxes
chapter
30
Unemployment Compensation: Theory and Practice
chapter
31
Workmen's Compensation, OSHA, ERISA, and EEOC
chapter
32
The Rationale of Unemployment Compensation and Public Charity
chapter
33
Unemployment Compensation as a Destabilizing Force
theoretical
34
Disincentives and Fraud in Unemployment Systems
theoretical
35
Inflation: From John Law to John Keynes
chapter
36
Inflation as a Cause of Institutional Unemployment
theoretical
37
Business Cycles: Doctrines and Theories
chapter
38
The Complexities of Division of Labor
chapter
39
The Capitalistic System: Distribution and Production Theories
chapter
40
Government Intervention and the Austrian Theory of the Cycle
chapter
41
The Labor Market as Affected by Cycles
chapter
42
Common Cause and Automatic Stabilizers
chapter
43
Taxation: Fiscal and Economic Objectives
chapter
44
Labor Unions: History and Economic Doctrines
chapter
45
The Economic Consequences of Unionism and Political Action
chapter
46
Laws Against Plant Closings
chapter
47
The Natural Rate of Unemployment and Structural Factors
chapter
48
Workers and Robots: The Second Industrial Revolution
chapter
49
The Impact of Technological Improvements on Labor and Capital
theoretical
50
Learning New Skills and the Costs of Retraining
theoretical
51
Moving to Another Location: The Costs of Labor Migration
theoretical
52
Economic Superiority vs. Technical Efficiency
theoretical
53
Foreign Competition and the Fallacies of Protectionism
chapter
54
The Wage-Rate Argument and Capital-Labor Composition
theoretical
55
United States-Japanese Trade Relations
essay
56
Women, Work and Wages: Production and Distribution
chapter
57
The Comparable Worth Doctrine and Education
theoretical
58
Women and the Law: Barriers to Employment
theoretical
59
The Equal Rights Amendment and Tradition
theoretical
60
Illegal Aliens and the Immigration Act of 1965
chapter
61
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
theoretical
62
The Economic Contribution of Illegal Aliens
theoretical
63
Stagnation in Puerto Rico: The Failure of Labor Legislation
chapter
64
Puerto Rican Payroll Taxes and Labor Costs
essay
65
Island Independence and Economic Prospects
essay
66
Work in the Underground: Origins and Definitions
chapter
67
Categories of Underground Economic Activity
theoretical
68
Hiding from Tax Collectors
chapter
69
Circumventing Regulations and Licenses
chapter
70
Reaping Entitlement Benefits
chapter
71
Underground Employment and Statistical Flaws
chapter
72
Employer of Last Resort: War on Poverty
chapter
73
Government, Business, and Job Programs
chapter
74
Unemployment in College Textbooks: The Keynesian Orthodoxy
chapter
76
Free-Market Perspectives and the Austrian Critique
chapter
77
Notes: Chapters 1-10
footnotes
78
Notes: Chapters 11-19
footnotes
79
Notes for Chapter 20: Unemployment in College Textbooks
footnotes
80
Index
bibliography
81
Index (Continued) and Promotional Materials
bibliography