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Where Keynes went wrong: Pay equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2025

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Joel Lefkowitz*
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Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY New York City, NY, USA
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 2025 , pp. 67 - 70
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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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