
Full Employment and Social Justice
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Mathew Forstater is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA; Research Director at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA. He is engaged in projects on employment and federal budget policy, using a historical, interdisciplinary approach to examine the potential role of full employment policies in the face of deficit reduction and continuous technological change.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Unemployment and Transformational Growth in the Long Run.- 3. The Job Guarantee and Transformational Degrowth.- 4. Getting Serious about the Limits to Growth: ELR and Economic Restructuring under Decroissance.- 5. Public Works Programs as a Strong Means for Land and Water Conservation in Iran.- 6. Can Capitalist Modes of Production be Biophysically Sustainable?.- 7. Complementary Currencies in the Solidarity Economy: The Local Job Guarantee.- 8. On the Reservation: Toward a Job Guarantee Program for American Indian Nations.- 9. Full Employment and the Job Guarantee: An All-American Idea.- 10. Employment Guarantee Programs as Automatic Stabilizers: Stylized Facts on a Macro Context and Micro Structure for Argentina.- 11. An Institutional Adjustment towards an Inclusive Provisioning Process.