1st Edition

Wage-Fixing (Routledge Revivals) Stagflation - Volume 1

By J. E. Meade Copyright 1982
250 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s. Professor Meade outlines the nature of the problem, contrasting the Great Slump of the 1930s with the Great Stagflation... Read more
1. Stagflation, or Making the Worst of Both Worlds  2. Effects of Wage-fixing on Unemployment and Inflation  3. Other Criteria for Fixing Rates of Pay  4. Imperfect Competition and the Case for Wage-fixing Institutions  5. The Existing Monopolistic Powers of Labour Organisation in the UK  6. The Role of Competition in the Labour Market  7. A Centralised Incomes Policy  8. Not-Quite-Compulsory Arbitration  9. Labour Co-operatives, Labour-Capital Partnerships, and Profit-Sharing Schemes  10. Fiscal Devices for the Control of Inflation  11. Summary of Conclusions: The Way Ahead.

Biography

Meade, J. E.