Profitability and Unemployment
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Edmond Malinvaud (Author)
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Discussions of economic policy argue that an adequate level of profitability is a precondition for avoiding future unemployment. This book studies the rationale for this statement. The analysis is built round a simple model of the Harrod-Doman type and extends the study of fixed-price equilibria by considering a dynamic process whose major components are capital accumulation and shifts in income distribution. The Keynesian depression, characterized by a sustained lack of demand, is found to be particularly stable. Lack of productive capacity may also occur when profitability has been too low. In this case, the resulting unemployment stimulates corrective shifts of prices and wages. However, such unemployment may last for some time and is more likely to be followed by Keynesian unemployment than by inflationary full employment. The first and last chapters consider the problem in less formal but more general terms. They discuss both the methodology for the study of the relationship between profitability and unemployment, and the role of various factors that the simple model neglects. Worked examples or Exercises
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- Contributor: Edmond Malinvaud
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521067140
- Number of Pages: 120
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x6mm
- Packaged Weight: 140
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2008-06-26
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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