First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
THE PROBLEM OF FULL EMPLOYMENT
Robert Pollin, Back to Full Employment (Book Review Books) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England, 2012) ("[W]e have to pose the question of full employment more precisely. It is not simply a matter of everyone spending their days trying to scratch out a living somehow. A workable definition of full employment should refer to an abundance of decent jobs." Id. at 12. "The real problem with U.S. employment conditions has never been globalization broadly defined, nor is it immigration or the trade deficit. [] The real problem is ... the absence of a full employment agenda tat takes account of the challenges presented by globalization, along with other major challenges." Id. at 62-63.).