Re: Marx and Keynes on Unemployment

[John Gelles <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Jim Devine wrote:

> ...  The study of the history of thought, as far as I can see,
       is not an end in itself but a means to getting new insights
       into the questions I'm trying to answer.

		In more than 20 postings on this subject,
		the questions each of the many writers were
		trying to answer remained hidden from view
		-- I wonder what they were:

			1. Is the full employment experience
		of Germany and Japan during a ten year stretch
		in their "miracle years" but after 1960, in
		which unemployment was lowest, an appropriate
		standard for industrial nations over the next
		ten years from today?

			2. Is the 1944 US proposed economic
		bill of rights, in which the right to a job and
		wage high enough for what was then a lower
		middle class living standard ($24,000/year today)
		was to be a civil right on a par with freedom
		of speech, the standard we are looking for?

			3. Is there no standard with respect
		to employment and wages that any writer would
		use to judge the wisdom found in Marx/Keynes
		literature?

			John Gelles