The ‘bad luck’ theory of unemployment

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Wed, 14/01/2026 - 02:06
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Wed, 14/01/2026 - 02:06
As is well-known, New Classical economists have never accepted Keynes’s distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment. According to New Classical über-economist Robert Lucas, an unemployed worker can always instantaneously find some job. No matter how miserable the work options are, “one can always choose to accept them,” in Lucas’s view. This is, of course, only […]

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