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Vedder, Richard K., author.

Title Out of work : unemployment and government in twentieth-century America / Richard K Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway ; foreword by Martin Bronfenbrenner.

Publication Info.	New York : New York University Press, [1997]
	Š1997

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Edition	Updated edition.
Description	1 online resource : illustrations
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
	data file
Note	"An Independent Institute book."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Foreword / Martin Bronfenbrenner -- Preface to the updated edition / Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway -- Preface to the first edition / Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway -- 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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Unemployment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Employment (Economic theory)
	United States -- Economic conditions.
	Emploi.
	États-Unis -- Conditions économiques.
	employing.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	Economic history
	Employment (Economic theory)
	Unemployment
	United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
	Arbeitslosigkeit
	Arbeitsmarktpolitik
	USA
	Werkloosheid.
	USA.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History
Added Author	Gallaway, Lowell E. (Lowell Eugene), 1930-
Other Form:	Print version: Vedder, Richard K. Out of work. Updated edition 0814787924 (DLC) 97012516 (OCoLC)36713145
ISBN	9780814788462 (electronic bk.)
	0814788467 (electronic bk.)
	0814787924
	9780814787922
Standard No.	AU@ 000056082324
	GBVCP 1008663379