Description
One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false.
In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed. This is the aim of the Job Guarantee proposal: to provide a voluntary employment opportunity in public service to anyone who needs it. Tcherneva enumerates the many advantages of the Job Guarantee over the status quo and proposes a blueprint for its implementation within the wider context of the need for a Green New Deal.
This compact primer is the ultimate guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. It is essential reading for all citizens and activists who are passionate about social justice and building a fairer economy.
About the Author
Pavlina R. Tcherneva is Associate Professor at Bard College and Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute.
Wiley
The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
For release in June 2020
6 comments:
The government institutions can’t even get people their current unemployment claims ....
That’s in the turd world. Other countries can.
The first JG scheme I know of was organised by Pericles in Ancient Athens 2,500 years ago. I don't see that Pavlina's grasp of the subject is any better than Pericles's.
Slavery and conscription are excellent job guarantees.
An MMT job guarantee gives people a choice as much as possible. Work or leisure.
Conscription, slavery, UBI don't give people that choice. They're all about getting something for nothing. Which means somebody gets the short end of the stick - has to give something for nothing.
The JG is just assuring everyone they can get something by giving something. The idiocy called unemployment is when people are in a monetary economy - have something demanded of them, often needed for life itself. But the insane society refuses to receive what it demands. Contradictorily demands and refuses at the same time. So stupid that the hard part is convincing oneself that people can be and are that stupid, that unjust, to not have a JG since Year One.
Under capitalism, unemployment is not a bug, it's a feature.
Under slavery, unemployment is a disaster. Owning slaves and having them do nothing is hardly a recipe for success.
Feudalism tried to strike a balance between working for the lord and working for yourself. Given the judgement of history, they should have tried harder.
A combination of social conditioning, stupidity and laziness has resulted in no alternatives to the status quo. No choices to speak of. The people (the deplorable ones specifically) elected Trump, but he's no Pericles.
Post a Comment