Who Needs Jobs?: Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare
Pierre Lemieux
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Description for Who Needs Jobs?: Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare
Paperback. The goal should not be to create jobs, but to let people earn income in order to consume what they want. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: KCC; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in America. With his approach, Lemieux takes this controversial and complex topic and makes it understandable, using economic analysis and real world examples.
In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in America. With his approach, Lemieux takes this controversial and complex topic and makes it understandable, using economic analysis and real world examples.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137355058
SKU
V9781137355058
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Pierre Lemieux
Pierre Lemieux is an economist affiliated with the Department of Management Sciences of the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada, a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute, and a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute (Oakland, California). He is author of several books, as well as several newspaper and journal articles.
Reviews for Who Needs Jobs?: Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare
"Pierre Lemieux once again debunks one of the most pervasive delusions driving government economic policy. His lucid writing and vivid examples show why federal programs that seek to create jobs are almost guaranteed to breed boondoggles and undermine productivity throughout the economy. Unfortunately, politicians profit from such schemes no matter how much taxpayers suffer." - Jim Bovard, author of Attention ... Read more