Biomedical subjects

G Adler-Karlsson

Publications and source records attributed to G Adler-Karlsson.

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PubMed1987

The choices to be made.

If we are to avoid unemployment when technology increases productivity, we have two choices. We must increase our level of material living (more private luxury gadgets or more public luxury services) and/or decrease our total working time. These choices reflect social power relations. Capital owners and leaders of labour unions normally endorse the standard increase solution. The unemployed are for the reduction in hours, hoping to get a share of the labour time. Studies reported here indicate that a solid majority of ordinary men and women also seem to prefer the reduction in working time solution.

Choice Behavior↗

PubMed1987

An alternative model.

In present Western societies, we witness the growing power of the state over the citizens, with an ever-growing flow of freedom-encroaching regulations, legitimated by the wish to keep full employment for all, for all of life. It is suggested here that a major political challenge for the rest of this millenium is to find a limit for the state's material responsibility for, and claims on, its citizens. This can only be done if we divide society into one highly regulated basic needs sector and other free sectors, in which state influence is minimized. This is like dividing trains into smoking and non-smoking compartments.

Employment↗