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Imagine a person reading some standard economic textbooks in 1970 and then leaving the subject, only to renew the acquaintance two decades later. Taking up contemporary textbooks or articles he would probably be rather surprised: in the case of some works, he might even have difficulty in recognizing them as dealing with the same subject he had examined twenty years before.
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Brink, H. (1992). Introduction. In: Brink, H. (eds) Themes in Modern Macroeconomics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12511-1_1
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