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Sam Pawlett rsp at uniserve.com
Mon Mar 13 13:03:30 PST 2000


JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:


> In any case I would not hold up high hopes for enforcing a right to employment through the courtts even if the US had by some oversight in fact signed a treaty that purported to offer such rights.
>

How do you square full employment with market socialism? Full employment and especially a constitutional right to a job really taked the bite out of labor markets and what labor markets do-- 'discipline' labor through fear of poverty ultimately leading to higher productivity and a hard budget constraint. Full employment leads to the 'principal-agent' problem, management has problems getting labor to carry out the necessary tasks. Wouldn't it just be better to abolish the venal labor market altogther?

Sam Pawlett



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