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

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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.

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  • Mathew Forstater, 1999. "Savings-Recycling Public Employment: An Assets-Based Approach to Full Employment and Price Stability," Macroeconomics 9908003, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    2. William Vickrey, 2004. "Meaningfully Defining Deficits and Debt," Chapters, in: Mathew Forstater & Pavlina R. Tcherneva (ed.), Full Employment and Price Stability, chapter 4, pages 27-32, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. William Vickrey, 2004. "Today's Task for Economists," Chapters, in: Mathew Forstater & Pavlina R. Tcherneva (ed.), Full Employment and Price Stability, chapter 7, pages 44-53, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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