How The Last Boiling Frog Gave Birth To The Modern Unemployment Rate

The origins of the modern unemployment rate were, of course, political in nature. Before, the question was simple: you were either employed or you weren’t. There weren’t so many various stages of condition, a gradation that today is as enthusiastically applied to the very definition of the labor force itself.

 

 

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