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Alfred S. Eichner (March 23 1937 – February 10 1988) was an American post-Keynesian economist who challenged the neoclassical price mechanism and asserted that prices are not set through supply and demand but rather through mark-up pricing.Eichner is considered a prominent member of the post-Keynesian school of economics and was a professor at Rutgers University at the time of his death.