Macroeconomic Policy and a Living Wage: The Employment ACT as Redistributive Economics, 1944-1969

by Donald R. Stabile

This book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in addition to Keynesian economics, the idea of a living wage was also part of the background leading up to the Employment Act. The Act mandated that the president prepare an Economic Report on the state of the economy and how to improve it, and the idea of a living wage was an essential issue in those Economic Reports for over two decades. The author argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030132048
• ISBN13: 9783030132040
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"