Economic policy as expectations management: Keynes’ and Friedman's complementary approachesFootnote¹

1 Successive versions of this paper were presented to the 2014 Charles Gide Conference in Lyon, the 2016 Charles Gide Conference in Strasbourg and to the 2016 HES Conference at Duke University. Over time, I benefited from the criticism and comments of many participants at those conferences. I am in particular indebted to Bob Dimand, Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, James Forder, Nicola Giocoli, and George Tavlas. I am also extremely grateful to two anonymous referees. Nonetheless, the usual disclaimers apply.

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