霍尔特的论著论述失业的原因。作者特别要想说明最近许多经合组织国家持续和高度失业的状况。文章分为六个部分。其出发点是假定数量调节比价格调节快的巴罗—格罗斯曼模型,叙述短期的失业均衡;或者如莱永赫夫伍德那样把它称作“持续的失业状态”。在那种情况下代理人在劳动力和商品市场上都是 Holt's treatise discusses the causes of unemployment. In particular, the author wants to describe the continuing and highly unemployed situation in many OECD countries. The article is divided into six parts. The starting point is the Barrow-Grossman model, which assumes a faster-than-price-adjusted volume, about short-term unemployment equilibrium or, as Lyon-Hufflewood calls it, a “continuing unemployment.” In that case the agent is in the labor and commodity markets