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Towards a New Theory of Economic Policy: Continuity and Innovation

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Quantitative Economic Policy

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The purpose of this paper is to honour Andrew Hughes Hallett. We think that a convenient way to do this is to outline the evolution of the theory of economic policy, in which he has played such a decisive role, from the classical contributions of Frisch, Hansen, Tinbergen and Theil to the present day when a sort of “new” theory of economic policy seems to have emerged from the ashes of the old one.

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  1. Department of Public Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via Castro Laurenziano, 9, 00161, Roma, Italy

    Nicola Acocella

  2. Department of Communication, University of Teramo, Campus di Coste Sant’Agostino, Teramo, Italy

    Giovanni Di Bartolomeo

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  1. Department of Economics, Klagenfurt University, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Reinhard Neck

  2. Department of Economics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE 11 3TU, UK

    Christian Richter

  3. Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Peter Mooslechner

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Acocella, N., Di Bartolomeo, G. (2008). Towards a New Theory of Economic Policy: Continuity and Innovation. In: Neck, R., Richter, C., Mooslechner, P. (eds) Quantitative Economic Policy. Advances in Computational Economics, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74684-3_2

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