There are many proposals for stimulating economic growth and lowering unemployment, and though they sometimes make full employment a goal, none of them except the plan highlighted in this well-researched book can make it a promise.
John Pierson's Economic Performance Insurance (EPI) plan is his life-long campaign to tackle the New Deal's unsolved problems. He explains that the indignity and physical suffering of the jobless themselves do not have to continue, job discrimination can be combated, and our national income will rise as "nonproduction" declines. The social burden of fighting...