The Macroeconomics of Unemployment
Causes and Eradication
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The Macroeconomics of Unemployment
Causes and Eradication
About this book
This book explores unemployment from a monetary macroeconomics perspective, identifying the pathology at the origin of unemployment and the principles of reform that will enable a passage from capitalism to post?capitalism.
Bernard Schmitt explores the problem of involuntary unemployment by developing his quantum monetary macroeconomic analysis, demonstrating that the presence of fixed capital increases both physical productivity and the production of economic value. Money is at the core of Schmitt's analysis because the relation between money and output is what makes it difficult to explain the origin of involuntary unemployment. Schmitt shows that unemployment is formally impossible in any economy producing wage?, interest?, and investment?goods. It is only when the economic system includes fixed capital amortization that the conditions for the formation of unemployment are met. The determining role is played by the natural rate of interest: when this rate falls below the market rate of interest, unemployment sets in. Schmitt provides a new explanation of the mechanism leading to unemployment and advocates a reform that, if implemented, would break any link between capital accumulation and unemployment.
This book is essential reading for those interested in issues around unemployment and post?capitalism as well as the fields of political economy, macroeconomics, economic theory, and heterodox economics more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the editors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Part I Understanding money
- Part II Unemployment is formally impossible in economies where only wage income exists
- Part III Unemployment is formally impossible in economies where only household income may be found
- Part IV Unemployment cannot result from consumption or investment
- Part V Summary of the financial operations associated with the production of wage- and profit-goods
- Part VI The amortization of fixed capital
- Part VII Key ideas of the reform that will defeat unemployment
- Appendix A simplified presentation of some key points
- Bibliography
- Index