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The Legacy of Joan Robinson

…by Keynes himself in the Preface to his 1936 General Theory. She also supported Kalecki, whom Keynes had in to Cambridge, but by all accounts did not like. In 1937…

Selling Mrs. Conspicuous Consumption

…the term. Veblen used “obsolescence” in The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Engineers and the Price System, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts,…