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Buses in the Market
Author(s) -
Gibbs John
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01711.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , political economy , political science , economics , economic history , law , politics
Keynes wrote in 1936 that ‘Practical men, who behove themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usualy the slaves of some defunct economist’. John Hibbs, still happily far from being defunct, assesses the extent to which ideas can shape public policy if their advocates are prepared to withstand the opposition of vested inteiests who stand to lose from change.