Political aspects of ‘buffer stock’ employment: a reconsideration
重新审视了缓冲储备就业方案的政治可行性，指出仅靠该方案无法解决卡莱茨基所担忧的政治约束，难以实现永久充分就业。
Abstract Advocates of Job Guarantee (JG) or Employer of Last Resort (ELR) schemes have suggested that if the state provides ‘buffer stock’ employment to workers displaced from private employment, then full employment can be maintained over the course of the business cycle. Kalecki was sceptical about the prospects for maintaining full employment in capitalist economies, without fundamental institutional change that would alleviate certain political constraints. We argue that in and of themselves, JG/ELR schemes do not create the fundamental institutional change required to address Kalecki’s concerns and so ensure that full employment becomes achievable as a permanent state.