Description
List of Tables and Figures – Preface – INTRODUCTION – The Nature of Unemployment – Note on Methodology – Definitions – Extent of Unemployment in the OECD – Dimensions of Unemployment in the United Kingdom – Varieties of Unemployment – HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT – Unemployment and the Origins of Capitalism – The Trade Cycle – Structural and Technological Unemployment – Structural, Technological or Cyclical Unemployment? – THEORY: PETTY TO KEYNES – Lines of Descent – A Self-Regulating System – Precursors of the Welfare State – Marx: The Pursuit of the Trade Cycle: Keynes’s Revolution – CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT – Intellectual Ingredients – Case Studies of Current Theories – ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT THEORIES – Methods – Supply-side Economics – Search Unemployment – Rational Expectations – The Natural Rate of Unemployment – Institutional Engineering – OPTIONS, STRATEGIES AND PROGNOSES – Disillusion – Palliatives – Evolution and Adaptation – Mutual Accommodation – Stalemate or Radical Change – Historical Imperatives – A Programme for Economic Research – Summary – Bibliography – Index
