Bill Mitchell — Employment as a human right

As I indicated earlier this week, I will progressively add notes to the body of work that will become the manuscript for my next book (with long-time co-author Joan Muysken) on the – Future of Work. As I write bits and pieces, I will post them here for comments and feedback. The book will be published sometime in 2018. At present, I am working on the philosophical considerations that we will deploy to underpin the more prescriptive elements (policy proposals) that we will produce....

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Employment as a human right
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Merijn Knibbe — Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken on underemployment, macro-modelling and policy

Yesterday, I posted some graphs about underemployment in the EU, mainly to draw people’s attention to this important subject. The main takeaway:
Underemployment is high as well as cyclically sensitive.
And I stated that we should start to incorporate it in macro models. Well, Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken are already doing this, I discovered. And incorporating underemployment in models turns out to make a large difference....

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Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken on underemployment, macro-modelling and policy
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Mitchel & Muysken— Full Employment Abandoned

This is the definitive MMT work on employment and the ELR/JG.

Full Employment Abandoned: Shifting Sands and Policy Failures
by William Mitchell & Joan Muysken (Elgar 2008)

The hardbound version is pricey; however, it is available as an ebook for $31.20. Elgar lists a variety of vendors through the link above. Here is the link to Googlebooks.