Title:	Full Employment and Social Justice
Authors:	Michael J. Murray Mathew Forstater
Keywords:	Social Justice
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	How can full employment programs sustain the economy, the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities? Concisely, that is what this book attempts to answer. The forthcoming chapters build on three previous volumes by the editors; the essays in Murray and Forstater (2017) investigate the financing of the Job Guarantee through the lens of Modern Money Theory; contributors in Murray and Forstater (2013a) simulate Job Guarantee programs; and the essays in Murray and Forstater (2013b) investigate real world case-studies of employment guarantee schemes. The contributions in this volume focus on the formation of federal, state, and local institutions to reduce and eliminate the opportunity gap for women and minorities, promote environmentally sustainable methods of production and consumption, and rebuild local economies through education, training, and community redevelopment programs. The shared vision among the contributors of this volume is that the formation and implementation of a federally funded, locally operated, Job Guarantee program is a vital component to address these complex and interweaving concerns. The theoretical foundations of the Job Guarantee (also referred to in the literature as the Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program or the Public Sector Employment (PSE) program) was furthered in the late 1990s and early 2000s by economists in the USA, Europe, and Australia notably at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (http://www.cfeps.org), the Levy Economics Institute (http://www.levyinstitute.org), and the Center of Full Employment and Equity (http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/). Alongside these institutions, Job Guarantee scholarship continues as part of the larger research program at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (www.binzagr-institute.org/).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55259
ISBN:	978-3-319-66376-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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