job guarantee and MMT links

Job Guarantee Programs: Careful What You Wish For by Thomas Palley

SWF+UBD by Steve Randy Waldman

What if you could sue the government for a job? by Jeff Spross

Universal basic income vs jobs guarantees: which one will make us happier? by Cory Doctorow

Should Democrats play it safe with a job guarantee? by Jeff Spross

Reorienting Fiscal Policy: A Critical Assessment of Fiscal Fine-Tuning by Tcherneva

What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? by Robert Reich

Here’s the one book every millennial and Gen Z new graduate should read (and it’s not Dr. Seuss) by Erin Kaine (on David Graeber)

Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate. BY ROHAN GREY & RAÚL CARRILLO REBUTTAL BY MATT BRUENIG

Yes, a Jobs Guarantee Could Create “Boondoggles.” It Also Might Save the Planet. by Kate Aronoff

10 Principles for a Federal Job Guarantee By Angela Glover Blackwell, Sarah Treuhaft, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr.

excellent podcast on JG-UBI by Current Affairs

Robert Reich video on JG

Democrats’ Next Big Thing: Government-Guaranteed Jobs by Jim Tankersley

Three Ways to Design a Democratic Job Guarantee by Alexander Kolokotronis

Stephanie Kelton Has The Biggest Idea In Washington by Zach Carter

PUBLIC SERVICE: EMPLOYMENT:A PATH TO FULLEMPLOYMENT by L. Randall Wray, Flavia Dantas, Scott Fullwiler, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, and Stephanie A. Kelton  (April 2018)

The Job Guarantee:Design, Jobs, and Implementation by Tcherneva (April 2018)

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton

The Job Guarantee Controversy by Timothy Taylor

Baby bonds

JOB GUARANTEE: MARXIST OR KEYNESIAN? by Chris Dillow

Some thoughts about the Job Guarantee by Simon Wren-Lewis (2017)

The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee By PETER-CHRISTIAN AIGNER and MICHAEL BRENES

Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess” by Matt Bruenig

Workfare Means New Mass Peonage by Frances Fox Piven and Barbara Ehrenreich (1987)

The Job Guarantee Is Not a Human Capital Program by Max Sawicky

Posts in Three Lines (see comments too) by J.W. Mason

My impression of job guarantee advocates, which I am afraid you are not doing much to dispel, is that they are not willing to admit that their preferred approach ahas any drawbacks, or that any alternatives have any merits.

A Promise So Big, Democrats Aren’t Sure How to Keep It: Progressives are lining up behind a jobs guarantee—but leaving the details for later. by Anne Lowrey

Everyone Can Have Their Own Job Guarantee by Matt Bruenig

Bernie Gets Socialistic by Max Sawicky

The Job Guarantee and the Wilted Liberal Imagination by Jack Meserve

Job Guarantees, Collective Bargaining and the Right to Strike by Sandwichman

Smile by Steve Randy Waldman

We Work by James K. Galbraith

Dems’ Job Guarantee Isn’t Nearly as Easy as It Sounds by Dean Baker

Larry Mishel disputes costs. 

How the Democrats' big jobs idea could upend the Fed by Jeff Spross

Only 1 in 3 Americans Work Full Time by Matt Bruenig

The whole world was watching – we could have done something special': What Finnish experts say about the country's controversial basic-income experiment by Karin Olli-Nilsson

How much would a job guarantee actually cost? by Jeff Spross

WHETHER AMERICA CAN AFFORD A JOB GUARANTEE PROGRAM IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE by David Dayen

basic income and public job offer: complimentary policies by Fitzroy and Jin

Debate: Is This the Time for a Federal Jobs Program? by Conor Sen and Noah Smith

Need Work? Maybe That's a Job for Government by Noah Smith

The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee by Erik Loomis

also see

Economists Don't Say That Automation Will Drive Unemployment Higher by Dean Baker

Two Big Questions About the Job Guarantee: God, Devil, and the Details by Steve Roth

4 big questions about job guarantees by Dylan Matthews

Why politicians should promise every American a job by Matt Yglesias

World Bank on Jefes de Hogar (Heads of Household)

Strengthening Unemployment Protections in America (Center for American Progress)

The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation” by Alexandra Scaggs

GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all by John Quiggin

The Call for Jobs for All by Matthew Klein

How do our job creation recommendations stack up against a job guarantee? by Josh Bivens

Why the Cause of Full Employment Is Back from the Dead by Harold Meyerson

Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to guarantee every American a job by Jeff Stein

Cory Booker’s new big idea: guaranteeing jobs for everyone who wants one by Dylan Matthews

Historicizing GovernmentWork Programs: A Spectrumfrom Workfare to Fair Work by Nancy E. Rose (2000)

Why Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee by Sean McElwee

A GUARANTEED “JOBS FOR ALL” PROGRAM IS GAINING TRACTION AMONG 2020 DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS by Kate Aronoff

Need a Job? Just Call Bernie. by Kevin Drum

Yes, The Jobs Guarantee Is Absurd by Adam Ozimek

Democrats Are Rushing Into a Job Guarantee. It Could Be a Huge Mistake. by Jonahthan Chait

Prior Models for Workable Workfare Work by Matt Bruenig

Why is MMT so popular? by Simon Wren-Lewis

A Response to Tom Palley by J.W. Mason

Modern Money Theory (MMT) vs. Structural Keynesianism by Thomas Palley

Israel Nash