Who Needs Jobs? [electronic resource] : Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare /
Lemieux, P.author.
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in America. With his approach, Lemieux takes this controversial and complex topic and makes it understandable, using economic analysis and real world examples.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1 BANNING CHAIN SAWS; 2 TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES; 3 WORK AS A COST; 4 THE VALUE OF CONSUMPTION; 5 THE LUMP-OF-LABOR FALLACY; 6 Exchange, Competition, And The Division Of Labor; 7 EXCHANGE OVER NATIONAL BORDERS; 8 EXPORTING JOBS; 9 EFFICIENT JOBS; 10 HOW TO DESTROY EFFICIENT JOBS; 11 ECONOMIC GROWTH; 12 ARTIFICIAL JOBS; 13 AGGREGATE DEMAND; 14 DO JOBS MATTER?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in America. With his approach, Lemieux takes this controversial and complex topic and makes it understandable, using economic analysis and real world examples.
Microeconomics.
Labor economics.
Public finance.
Macroeconomics.
Poverty.
Microeconomics.
Labor Economics.
Public Economics.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Development Aid.