Out of Work : Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

The most comprehensive book ever to appear on unemployment in the United States. --George Gilder, author of Wealth and PovertyA triple hit: an engaging narrative of a century of U.S. economic history . . . an attack on the mythology that high wage rates and government spending reduce unemployment and a critique on wrong-headed public policies since 1930 that have raised unemployment levels. --Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic ResearchVedder and Gallaway show convincingly that we need once again to rethink our entire notion of unemployment. --Jonathan R. T. Hughes, Northwestern UniversityA book of great interest. --Kenneth BouldingRedefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself. An Independent Institute Book

Lowell E. Galloway is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.