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When the price of a good or service (labor) is kept artificially above equilibrium (i.e. - minimum wages, prevailing union wages, forced employer mandates, etc.) there will be a surplus of that good or service (entrenched unemployed or full employment defined as any number greater than 0%).
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what is equilibrium ace? i mean beyond that arbitrary intersection of supply and demand curves in those simple-minded diagrams from econ 101.
do any actually existing socio-economic systems tend toward equilibrium? of course they don't.
metaphysics, ace. it's a therapeutic exercise. it appeals to a sense of an ordered world. it doesn't appeal when you're looking at actual reality.
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The only way to address the situation is to remove the reasons the price is forcibly maintained above equilibrium, i.e. - the government creating an environment friendly to employers actually employing.
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the is nothing at all to back up either clause here and still less to justify the leap from the first to the second.
in the present situation, you seriously believe that it is state policy that is the cause of unemployment rates at around 10% officially?