Who Needs Jobs? Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare

In Who Needs Jobs?, Lemieux explains how jobs are not the goal of economic life and how creating jobs should not be the goal of public policy. He delves into how income and prosperity are created (businesses producing what consumers demand), proposes solutions to the unemployment problem, and provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the jobs discussions of politicians and economists in America. With his approach, Lemieux takes this controversial and complex topic and makes it understandable, using economic analysis and real world examples.

Pierre Lemieux is an economist affiliated with the Department of Management Sciences of the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada, a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute, and a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute (Oakland, California). He is author of several books, as well as several newspaper and journal articles.

Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Banning Chainsaws
2. Two Different Approaches
3. Work as a Cost
4. The Value of Consumption
5. The Lump-of-Labor Fallacy
6. Exchange, Competition, and the Division of Labor
7. Exchange over National Borders
8. Exporting Jobs
9. Efficient Jobs
10. How to Destroy Efficient Jobs
11. Economic Growth
12. Artificial Jobs
13. Aggregate Demand
14. Do Jobs Matter?
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