Unemployment, Inflation and a Civilized Economy

Abstract

Politicians of both major parties argue that they want to provide a legislative economic programme to promote a ‘civil society’ that emphasizes the importance of family and community values. Unfortunately, today’s political decision-makers are trapped by an economic policy rhetoric that focuses so heavily on market values and individual self-interest that it derogates the very family and community values that politicians want to promote.

This paper was coauthored by Greg S. Davidson. It was written for, accepted by, and paid for publication by The Nation magazine, but was never published by The Nation.