Theory of Unemployment

1. Auflage 1968
ISBN: 978-0-7146-1242-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

First Published in 1968. A reprinting of the original collection of essays on unemployment, from 1933, which are addressed to students of economics. Concerning the areas of the form of the real demand function for labour in particular occupations, the monetary factor, with the aim of a direct discussion on the causation of unemployment and its fluctuations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pigou, Arthur Cecil

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 General Considerations; Part 1 Chapter 1 Definition of Unemployment; Part 1 Chapter 2 The Relation of Unemployment to Unfilled Vacancies; Part 1 Chapter 3 The Cost of Unemployment; Part 1 Chapter 4 The Meaning of Units of Real Wages; Part 1 Chapter 5 The Arithmetic of Employment; Part 1 Chapter 6 The Causation of Unemployment; Part 2 The Short Period Elasticity of the Real Demand for Labour; Part 2 Chapter 1 Introductory; Part 2 Chapter 2 Demand Functions and Elasticity of Demand; Part 2 Chapter 3 The Determination of the Short-Period Elasticity of Demand for Labour in Part icular Occupations, in Respect of a Given Real Wage-Rate, in Conditions of Free Competition; Part 2 Chapter 4 Variations in the Quantity of Labour Demanded in Part icular Occupations in Relation to Variations in the Real Rate of Wage Under Monopoly; Part 2 Chapter 5 The Deferred Character of the Return to Labour; Part 2 Chapter 6 The Interdependence of Different Centres of Production; Part 2 Chapter 7 The Interdependence of Different Centres of Production; Part 2 Chapter 8 The Elasticity of Discounting; Part 2 Chapter 9 The Elasticity of Demand in Terms of Wage-Goods for Labour as a Whole; Part 2 Chapter 10 The Elasticity of Demand in Terms of Money for Labour as a Whole; Part 3 Factors other than Money Affecting the Level and Variations in the Level of the Real Demand for Labour; Part 3 Chapter 1 Introductory; Part 3 Chapter 2 Variations in the Quantity of Labour Demanded at a Given Real Wage-Rate in Part icular Occupations; Part 3 Chapter 3 The Principal Factors of Change in the Real Demand for Labour in Part icular Occupations; Part 3 Chapter 4 State Stimulation of Employment in Part icular Occupations; Part 3 Chapter 5 The Interdependence of Demand Changes in Respect of Substitutes and Complements; Part 3 Chapter 6 The Statistical Determination of Movements of the Demand Functions in Part icular Occupations; Part 3 Chapter 7 Transitions from Competitive to Monopolistic Action by Employ

Über Autor(innen)

A. C. Pigou