Livestream
Jan 16, 2014
5:00 AM - 7:00 PM (GMT-5)
Host:
Roosevelt Institute
CEPR co-director Dean Baker will be the featured author in an online book salon at firedoglake. It will be hosted by Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute.
Dean will be discussing his book, Getting Back to Full Employment, in which he and his co-author Jared Bernstein point out that the weakness of the labor market has made it impossible for most workers to achieve real wage gains.
As a result the benefits of the economic growth we have seen have gone overwhelmingly to the richest 1 percent. They show how, particularly in an era of historically high inequality, full employment would provide workers with the bargaining power needed to secure higher incomes and a fair share of the economy's growth.
