Savings-Recycling Public Employment: An Assets-Based Approach to Full Employment and Price Stability

Mathew Forstater
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Mathew Forstater: The Jerome Levy Economics Institute

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Abstract: William Vickrey's single-minded commitment to full employment is evident in a series of papers written in the last years of his life. In these works Vickrey formulated an assets-based approach to macroeconomic analysis that has definite implications for budgetary and employment policy. For Vickrey the relation between desired and actual holdings of net financial assets—or net nominal savings—is crucial to understanding macroeconomic processes, and the government budget is the key policy instrument in the necessary recycling of net nominal savings to bring the desired and actual levels into equality at the full employment level of output and income. Vickrey believed that the major task for economists and policymakers was to devise the means whereby the necessary recycling of net nominal savings can take place without unexpected changes in the rate of either inflation or deflation. This paper proposes government deficit-financed, guaranteed public employment as an automatic stabilizing policy instrument capable of serving as just such a means.

JEL-codes: E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1999-08-12
Note: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 19; figures: included
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