Nonfinancial Economics: The case for shorter hours of work

Introduction	ix

Part I An Economic and Political View: Unemployment and the Economics of Waste

1 The Bankruptcy of U.S. Employment Policy	3
2 The Productivity Factor	15
3 The Employment Factor	25
4 The Hours Factor	35
5 Output: Useful or Waste	51
6 Some Common Varieties of Waste	65
7 Shaking the Waste out of this Economy	101
8 An Economy Built on Money and Debt	113
9 Micro and Macro Effects of Reduced Hours	125
10 International Work Sharing	139

Part II Historical and Theological Views

11 A Short History of Working Hours	159
12 Work, Leisure, Philosophy, Ideology, and their Perversions	181

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