Abstract
People sometimes ask me what I am doing now that I have retired. When I reply that I am trying to find out why we have to have so much unemployment, they look a little puzzled that an economist should be bothered with such a question, and then they proceed to tell me the answer.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
R.M. Solow, The Nature and Sources of Unemployment in the United States, the Wicksell Lectures (Stockholm, 1964) p. 51.
D.T. Jones, ‘Output, Employment and Labour Productivity in Europe since 1955’, National Institute Economic Review, August, 1976
W. Leontief and F. Duchin, The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (Oxford University Press, New York, 1986).
R.C. Bryant, D.W. Henderson, G. Holtham, P. Hooper and S.A. Symansky (eds) Empirical Macroeconomics for Interdependent Economies (Brookings, Washington, 1988).
See R.M. Solow, ‘Economic History and Economics’, Proceedings of the American Economic Association, American Economic Review, May, 1985, p. 328.
B. Hansen, Fiscal Policy in Seven Countries, 1955–1965 (OECD, 1969).
J.K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958) pp. 164–5
M. Friedman and A. Schwartz, Monetary Trends in the United Kingdom and the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1982).
A.J. Brown, ‘Friedman and Schwartz on the United Kingdom’ Bank of England Panel Paper, no.22, October 1983. See also A.J. Brown, World Inflation since 1950 (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1990 The British Association for the Advancement of Science
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Worswick, D. (1990). The Prospects for Employment in Britain. In: Deane, P. (eds) Frontiers of Economic Research. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20460-1_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20460-1_2
Publisher Name: Palgrave, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-49251-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-20460-1
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)