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Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employment. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2020

What If We Nationalized Payroll? Pavlina Tcherneva

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As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the US Congress appropriated a whopping $2 trillion budget to tackle it (about 10% of GDP). The focu...
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Friday, March 27, 2020

A Recovery With Crippled Small Businesses Looks Awkward — Brian Romanchuk

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We have just seen the beginning of post-COVID economic data, and the numbers are literally off the charts. My feeling is that aggregate num...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

A "Wild and Dangerous" Scheme! — Sandwichman

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I was hunting for the exact location of "Prince's Tavern" in Manchester in 1833 when I stumbled upon an Economist article fro...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Bill Mitchell — UBI–the hopeful not the surrender

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I have long disagreed with Guy Standing about the solutions to unemployment. 20 years ago we crossed paths on panels and in the literature ...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

America’s Finest Economists Have Been Needlessly Undermining Growth, Study Confirms — Eric Levitz

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A few lonely voices disputed this consensus. In their view, these two distinct mysteries weren’t actually distinct — or all that mysteri...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Gina Heeb — There's a 'blue-collar wave' taking place in America — but it may not last

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Firms are having a more difficult time finding blue-collar workers than white-collar workers. The shortage is expected to continue to put...
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Friday, June 29, 2018

Lawrence Mishel — Social Security data confirm same old pattern: Self-employment headcount has risen but economic impact remains small

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One indication of the growth of self-employment activity has been the rise in the number of people filing Schedule C income and self-emplo...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Joshua Bateman — Why China is spending billions to develop an army of robots to turbocharge its economy

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a robot revolution in manufacturing to boost productivity. Wages in China are rising, and it...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Gaius Publius — Stephen Hawking on What Killed the World of the Jetsons. Prelude to Thoughts on a Guaranteed Jobs Program

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I’m about to start writing about the new proposal from Stephanie Kelton and her colleagues at the Levy Institute on the guaranteed jobs pro...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Claire Connelly — Capitalism and the veil of ignorance

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MMT. Medium Capitalism and the veil of ignorance Claire Connelly 
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Marshall Auerback — The Fed Is on the Verge of Making a Major Policy Error

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Policymakers have helped to perpetuate an economic model that is ultimately unsustainable. The article is based on Bill Mitchell's ana...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Dean Baker — Morning Edition Tells Us That Most Workers Think Like Most Economists and Don't Worry About Automation

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Productivity growth (the rate at which technology is displacing workers) had slowed to roughly 1.0 percent annually in the years since 2005...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Bruce Lesnick — The Unemployment Conspiracy

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JG v. UBI Counterpunch The Unemployment Conspiracy Bruce Lesnick
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Bill Mitchell — US labour market steady but low wage bias continues

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On December 8, 2017, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – Nove...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

David P. Goldman — Still no Phillpsy-Curve

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New data shows continued weak inflation in US, Europe Asia Times Still no Phillpsy-Curve David P. Goldman US tax bill gets huge boost...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Bill Mitchell — Automation and full employment – back to the 1960s

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On August 19, 1964, the then US President Lyndon B. Johnson established the – National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic P...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Pedro Nicolaci da Costa — Fed rebel warns businesses to stop 'whining' about a shortage of workers

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It’s an all-too common refrain among US corporations: we have jobs available, but simply can’t find qualified workers to fill them. Econo...
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Monday, July 31, 2017

Aaron Berger — We should let the robots take our jobs - and then pay us all a basic income

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Thinking outside the box, the box being wage-based capitalism. Are we in the phase transition to the next system? Instead of "basic inc...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

Sandwichman — Here is a Little Economics Lesson

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"Supply and demand." Short. Econospeak Here is a Little Economics Lesson Sandwichman
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

David F. Ruccio — Technology, employment, and distribution

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I can make the case that things would be much better if the adoption of new technologies did in fact displace a large number of labor hours...
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