Out of Work : : Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America / / Richard K Vedder, Lowell E. Gallaway.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Vedder, Richard K,; Gallaway, Lowell E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bronfenbrenner, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself. An Independent Institute Book

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Updated Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. The Unemployment Century -- 2. Unemployment in Theory -- 3. The Neoclassical/Austrian Approach: An Overview -- 4. The Gilded Age -- 5. From New Era to New Deal -- 6. The Banking Crisis and the Labor Market -- 7. The New Deal -- 8. The Impossible Dream Come True -- 9. The Gentle Time -- 10. The Camelot Years -- 11. "Pride Goeth Before a Fall" -- 12. The Winds of Change -- 13. The Natural Rate of Unemployment -- 14. Who Bears the Burden of Unemployment? -- 15. Unemployment and the State -- 16. Afterword -- Appendix A. The Extended Theoretical Model -- Appendix B. The Technical Aspects of the Statistical Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS