About the Editorsix
List of Contributorsxi
Volume Introductionxiii
Part I: A Symposium on Hazel Kyrk’s A Theory of Consumption 100 Years After Publication
Edited by Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Symposium 100 Years After the Publication of “A Theory of Consumption” By Hazel Kyrk (1923) 
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt3
Chapter 2: Hazel Kyrk’s Intellectual Roots: When First-generation Home Economists Met the Institutionalist Framework 
David Philippy, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Robert W. Dimand7
Chapter 3: Hazel Kyrk’s A Theory of Consumption, Veblen’s Business and Industrial Concerns, and W.C. Mitchell’s Essays on Spending and Money: Conceptual Links 
Zdravka Todorova27
Chapter 4: Hazel Kyrk, Eugenics, and Consumption Standards 
Edith Kuiper47
Chapter 5: Hazel Kyrk, The Economics of the Social Relevance of Consumption and John Maynard Keynes’ Consumption Function 
Attilio Trezzini69
Chapter 6: What Should Families Want? From Hazel Kyrk to Margaret Reid and Beyond 
Miriam Bankovsky95
Part II: Essays
Chapter 7: On the Integration of Institutional Themes and Neoclassical Formalism: Locational Economics as a Case Study in Pragmatic Empiricism 
Yue Xiao and Joseph Persky119
Chapter 8: Nutter and Buchanan Did Not Turn Against Tuition Grants for Segregated Schools in 1965: A Comment on Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023) 
Daniel Kuehn139
Chapter 9: Response to Kuehn: Buchanan on the Rules for Public School Funding: Additional Thoughts 
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart153

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