Toward Global Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9776597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bertram Gross, Bertram M Gross (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 492 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 182-193 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716287492001016 |
| OpenAlex | W2117874266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Despite the world's rising unemployment and underemployment, the United Nations has deserted its earlier commitments to full employment. This reflects the attitudes of most member states. In turn, economists have failed to measure the full labor surplus, analyze it globally, or update earlier full-employment concepts. Fortunately, new quality-of-life employment proposals in the U.S. Congress provide a political impetus for improved data analysis and policymaking in the United States. Its sponsors also urge regional and global fact-finding conferences under U.N. auspices. This would require new-style expert appraisals. Such appraisals might well indicate that joblessness, underemployment, and job insecurity (1) affect the majority of people in every region of the world; (2) have enormous economic and social consequences; (3) undermine the purchasing power and productivity needed to reverse economic stagnation and prevent collapse; and (4) are used to justify arms escalation as a way of providing jobs
Action (physics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Full employment · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Productivity · Purchasing power · Underemployment · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 1990 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |