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unusual facts about full employment



Bank of Canada

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker central bank monetary policy was directed towards increasing the money supply to cause low interest rates, and have full employment.

Employment Act of 1946

The theory, set forth by economist John Maynard Keynes and his American disciples such as Alvin Hansen at Harvard, contends that unemployment is caused by insufficient aggregate demand relative to the possible aggregate supply generated by full employment.

Long run and short run

J.M. Keynes (1936) emphasized fundamental factors of a market economy that might result in prolonged periods away from full-employment.

Transitional demand

Examples of transitional demands would be "Employment for all" or "Housing for all," demands that sound reasonable to the average citizen, but are practically impossible for capitalism to deliver on.


see also

Full Employment in a Free Society

Years later, Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek, quoted in Hayek on Hayek (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994), would claim that Beveridge's Full Employment in a Free Society was ghost-written by Nicholas Kaldor.

Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) is a book by William Beveridge, author of the Beveridge Report.