More Workers + Fewer Hours = Higher Productivity
Tibor Scitovsky has taught The London School of Economics, Stanford University
and the University of California. His books include Welfare and Competition:
The Economics of a Fully Employed Society and Human Desire and Economic
Satisfaction.
Menlo Park, Ca. - Turning unemployment of the
relatively few into added liesure for the many can be accomplished by
shortening the work week of the employed. Diminished unemployment and
a consequent reduction in poverty are the most obvious consequence of
such a shift in work patterns.
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