Full Employment in a Market Economy

Andrew Britton

National Institute Economic Review, 1994, vol. 150, 62-72

Abstract: The occasion for this conference is the 50th anniversary of the white paper on Employment Policy, Cmnd. 6527, presented by the Minister of Reconstruction to Parliament in May 1944. It is a short paper, just 3 pages long, and much of that length is devoted to the special difficulties in the labour market that were expected during the transition from war to peace. The detailed policy proposals set out in the white paper were not implemented in quite the way that was foreseen. Nevertheless this slim document did signal a new approach to economic policy quite different to the approach of governments pre-war. The most important sentence is the first. ‘The Government accept as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the war’. The paper would have been a landmark in the history of economic policy if it had said no more than that.

Date: 1994
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