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Where Keynes went wrong: Pay equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2025

Joel Lefkowitz*
Affiliation:
Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY New York City, NY, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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