The Macroeconomics of Unemployment: Causes and Eradication (1) (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
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- Synopsis
- This book explores unemployment from a monetary macroeconomics perspective, identifying the pathology at the origin of unemployment and the principles of reform that will enable a passage from capitalism to post‑capitalism.Bernard Schmitt explores the problem of involuntary unemployment by developing his quantum monetary macroeconomic analysis, demonstrating that the presence of fixed capital increases both physical productivity and the production of economic value. Money is at the core of Schmitt’s analysis because the relation between money and output is what makes it difficult to explain the origin of involuntary unemployment. Schmitt shows that unemployment is formally impossible in any economy producing wage‑, interest‑, and investment‑goods. It is only when the economic system includes fixed capital amortization that the conditions for the formation of unemployment are met. The determining role is played by the natural rate of interest: when this rate falls below the market rate of interest, unemployment sets in. Schmitt provides a new explanation of the mechanism leading to unemployment and advocates a reform that, if implemented, would break any link between capital accumulation and unemployment.This book is essential reading for those interested in issues around unemployment and post‑capitalism as well as the fields of political economy, macroeconomics, economic theory, and heterodox economics more broadly.
- Copyright:
- 2026
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 232 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040402634
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781040402566, 9781032708683, 9781032708843
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 08/07/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Bernard Schmitt
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Alvaro Cencini
- Translator:
- Xavier Bradley