Employment Guarantee Schemes ― Job Creation and Policy in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

Most of the scholarship on the Job Guarantee up to now has been in the context of industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia. Employment Guarantee Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This book also investigates how the Job Guarantee might interface with other policy goals, such as environmental sustainability. Eschewing narrow individualistic and economistic approaches, these interdisciplinary, historical, and comparative studies delve deeper into how both unemployment and true full employment can affect community.

Michael J. Murray is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bemidji State University, USA and a Research Associate with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. He received a PhD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His current research focuses on simulations of various Employer of Last Resort proposals, Heterodox price and production modeling, and the economics of Adolph Lowe. He has published in the Journal of Economic Issues, served as a book reviewer for the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, and contributed to edited volumes.

Mathew Forstater is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and Research Associate with the Jerome Levy Economics Institute. He is the Author of Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics. He is also the author of numerous journal articles, working papers, and policy reports on unemployment, full employment, green jobs, money, and competing approaches to the debt and deficit. He received a PhD from the New School for Social Research.