EconWatch.com > Keynes: Wage Flexibility and Full Employment
[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] From Chapter 19: Changes in Money-Wages: Thus the reduction in money-wages will have no lasting tendency to increase employment except by virtue of its repercussions either on the propensity to consume for the community as a whole, or on the schedule of marginal efficiencies of capital, or on the rate of interest. There is no method of analysing the effect of a reduction in money-wages, except by following up its possible effects on these three factors.
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Economist's View: one thing i'm still unsure of -- i'm reading Brad to say that NIRA did not have the effects that the letter of the law would suggest it had. but if government policies are not the culprit, why did hourly earnings rise so much in 1933-34 given that unemployment was so high? (via Cosmos)
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