Exiting from the Crisis
“Exiting from the Crisis: Towards a Model of More Equitable and Sustainable Growth” is a new book (over 270 pages) now available on line.
This volume of essays from global trade union leaders and economists is the product of the Global Unions Taskforce on a New Growth Model, a joint project of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)Â and the Global Union Research Network (GURN).
The task force involved more than 30 global trade union economists (including a modest contribution from yours truly) from a wide array of advanced, emerging and developing countries. The report includes a Preface by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, and fills a long-standing need to set out the global labour movements economic alternatives in a systematic fashion.
Here is a article that hits home on the lack of vision in Washington on exiting the crisis. Thought the PEFfers might like it. I like the labour perspective being developed in Andrew’s post, we need to keep building on such sign posts.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/neo-voodoo-economics-why-can-t-washington-get-its-act-together–20110519