“I shall argue that Keynesian macroeconomics neither asserts nor requires nominal wage and/or price rigidity. It does assert and require that markets not be instantaneously and continuously cleared by prices.”

—  James Tobin

"Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian View" (1993)

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