The Macroeconomics of Unemployment

PART I Understanding Money 1 The two monies present in modern economies 2 The integration of the product into money PART II Unemployment is formally impossible in economies where only wage income exists. 3 Wage-goods are already sold in the formation of wages 4 Savings and lending wages 5 The factors of production are their own employer 6 Unemployment is necessarily nil in an economy where wages are the only income PART III Unemployment is formally impossible in economies where only households income may be found 7 Households' non-wage income is taken from wages 8 An economy where household income is the only income cannot be affected by unemployment PART IV Unemployment cannot result from consumptions or investments 9 The oft-repeated theory of the adjustment between global supply and demand 10 Production, income, and unemployment 11 Invested profit PART V Summary of the financial operations associated with the production of wage- and profit-goods 12 Profit deposits 13 The lending of profit deposits in capitalism PART VI The amortization of fixed capital 14 Healthy amortization and pathological amortization 15 Even the correct definition of amortization allows for it to be devoid of any pathology 16 The logical framework of the explanation of unemployment PART VII Keys ideas of the reform that will defeat unemployment 17 A remainder of a few essential ideas 18 The solution to involuntary unemployment 19 Post-capitalism, profit-deposits, allocation of income and sectors 20 An outline of the reform APPENDIX Bibliography Index