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Professor of economics, university of ottawa, canada. John maynard keynes was a student of alfred marshall. Download pdf pricingtheoryinpostkeynesianeconomics. The book is a considerably extended and fully revamped edition of the highly successful and frequently cited foundations of postkeynesian economic analysis, published in 1992.
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