Modern Academic Usage
While Marx's terms are now lost, their referents have been topics of notable examination in modern economics. Sir Arthur Lewis, for example, cites only one specific contribution to Economics in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: his work on the (to Marx) "latent" non-employed. Lewis, in this discussion, uses the terms "an unlimited supply of labor" and "a reserve of cheap labor" in his rejection of the neoclassical treatment of the matter. And although non-employed people who are unable or uninterested in performing legal paid work are not considered among the "unemployed," the concept of conjunctural unemployment is used in economics today (now called "frictional unemployment"). Although Marx's work was earlier, there is no stated link between it and similar modern study.
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