James Stemble Duesenberry (July 18 1918 – October 5 2009) was an American economist. He made a significant contribution to the Keynesian analysis of income and employment with his 1949 doctoral thesis Income Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior. Kenneth Arrow believed that it offered one of the most significant contributions of the postwar period to our understanding of economic behavior.
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