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Rejecting the Keynesian preoccupation with increasing employment in order to fuel demand, this provocative study seeks to reorient the very problematique of macroeconomic research from `cyclical unemployment' to what the author terms `chronic misemployment'. Narindar Singh maintains that Keynes and his followers (the most notable of whom was Paul Samuelson) concentrated on the level of employment to the exclusion of the content of employment. He cites as examples employment in the arms industry and in a wide range of industries which produce goods of doubtful value and which cause pollution. In addition, such activity has engendered consumerist profligacy which compounds the problem. And if Keynes is the theorist of this approach, maintains the author, then Hitler was its most prominent practitioner.