Episode

12/3 Dean Baker: Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People

December 3, 2013

Economist and co-author author of the new book The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for PeopleDean Baker explains what full employment means, why demand problems drive the modern economic crisis, economic myths feeding unemployment, all the many benefits of full employment, why government is pursuing anti employment policies, generational debt myths, what needs to be done to boost the economy now and why we need a weaker Dollar.

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