full employment

…not be able to achieve full employment. The second was the influence of John Maynard Keynes on economic theory. Keynesian economics theorized that free-market economies might settle at below full-employment equilibria, thus necessitating government stimulus to push the economy toward full employment. Prior to the creation of the council, economic…

…not enough simply to achieve full employment periodically. Some maintain that it is necessary to maintain full employment over an extended period of time if high growth is to result. This argument relates to the earlier point that two economies may experience the same rate of growth of capital but…

…system does not automatically generate full employment and stable prices and that governments should pursue deliberate stabilization policies. There has been much controversy among economists over the substance and meaning of Keynes’s theoretical contribution. Essentially, he argued that high levels of unemployment might persist indefinitely unless governments took monetary and…

Full employment has been a stated goal of many governments since World War II, and a variety of programs have been devised to attain it. It should be pointed out that full employment is not necessarily synonymous with a zero unemployment rate, for at any…

…the period will reflect normal “full” employment. Given this assumption, the overall rate of growth depends on two principal factors: the number of people in the labour force and the rate at which productivity (output per worker) increases. The number of people of working age is known, barring some natural…

The system is already at full employment, and hence an increase in spending on investment without a corresponding decrease in spending for consumption would spell inflation. What kind of adjustment will maintain stable prices? A rise in the interest rate will (1) moderate the increase in investment spending and (2)…

…systems would automatically tend toward full employment.