The opportunity to consider employment as both a legal and constitutional issue, and a challenge to economic policy, attracted a large audience and produced lively and sharp exchanges among the panel members and with those in attendance. The session included the following papers: Philip Harvey, Rutgers University, “Employment as a Human Right”; L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City, “Government as Employer of Last Resort: Can It Work?”; and William Darrity, Jr., University of North Carolina, “Full Employment Fan- tasies.” The discussants were: Daniel J. B. Mitchell, UCLA, and Thomas L. Palley, AFL-CIO. The session was chaired by Sumner M. Rosen, National Jobs for All Coalition and Columbia University.
