Reiff On Unemployment

A Micro-Theory of Economic Justice: Volume 1
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-55000-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection

With unemployment at historically high rates that show signs of becoming structural, there is a pressing need for an in-depth exploration of this economic injustice. Unemployment is one of the problems most likely to put critical pressure on our political institutions, disrupt the social fabric of our way of life, and even threaten the continuation of liberalism itself. Despite the obvious importance of the problem of unemployment, however, there has been a curious lack of attention paid to this issue by contemporary non-Marxist political philosophers. On Unemployment explores the moral implications of the problem of unemployment despite the continuing uncertainty involving both its causes and its cures. Reiff takes up a series of questions about the nature of unemployment and what justice has to tell us about what we should do, if anything, to alleviate it. The book comprehensively discusses the related theory and suggests how we might implement these more general observations in the real world. It addresses the politics of unemployment and the extent to which opposition to some or all of the book's various proposals stem not from empirical disagreements about the best solutions, but from more basic moral disagreements about whether the reduction of unemployment is indeed an appropriate moral goal. This exciting new text will be essential for scholars and readers across business, economics, and finance, as well as politics, philosophy, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reiff, Mark R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half-Title;2
3;Title;4
4;Copyright;5
5;Dedication;6
6;Contents;8
7;Volume;2
8;Preface;10
9;Introduction;15
10;Part I Theory;33
10.1;1 The Various Forms of Unemployment;34
10.1.1;1.1 What Is Full Employment?;34
10.1.2;1.2 Voluntary and Involuntary Unemployment;35
10.1.3;1.3 Cyclical and Structural Unemployment;40
10.1.4;1.4 The Natural Rate Hypothesis;42
10.2;2 In What Sense Is Unemployment a Proper Object of Moral Concern?;46
10.2.1;2.1 Unemployment as a Violation of an Individual Right;46
10.2.2;2.2 Unemployment as a Distributive Injustice;48
10.2.3;2.3 What Distributive Justice Requires;56
10.3;3 Technological Innovation and Structural Unemployment;78
10.3.1;3.1 Does Technological Unemployment Exist?;78
10.3.2;3.2 Say’s Law and Its Implications;82
10.3.3;3.3 Sticky Wages and the Commodification of Labor;87
10.3.4;3.4 The Distinction between the Short and Long Term;94
10.3.5;3.5 Robots in Waiting and the Difference between Work and Leisure;98
10.3.6;3.6 Is Technological Unemployment Incurable?;102
11;PART IIPraxis;106
11.1;4 Getting Our Priorities Right: What Does Justice RequireThat We Do? Part 1;107
11.1.1;4.1 Managing Technological Innovation;107
11.1.2;4.2 Growth at Any Cost?;111
11.1.3;4.3 Direct Transfer Payments;116
11.1.4;4.4 Fiscal Stimulus and Unemployment;121
11.1.5;4.5 Increased Spending and Increased Taxation;123
11.1.6;4.6 Is Austerity the Way to Economic Prosperity?;125
11.1.7;4.6.1 The Anti-Interventionist Argument;125
11.1.8;4.6.2 The Ordoliberal Argument;140
12;Notes;147
13;References;206
14;Index;244

Über Autor(innen)

Mark R. Reiff teaches legal and political philosophy at the University of Manchester's School of Law, UK. He is the author of two previous books: Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State (2013), and Punishment, Compensation, and Law (2005), as well as various papers on political, legal, and moral philosophy. During the 2008-09 academic year, Reiff was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, USA.