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Name : Frits Bos
Sector :  Short Term Analysis and Fiscal Affairs
Telephone :  +31 70 33 83 461 
Fax :  +31 70 33 83 350 
E-mail : Frits Bos

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"Economic research and text books on economics should pay much more attention to the relationship between economic theory and concepts used in business accounts, economic policy, fiscal policy and statistics. This clarifies the merits and limitations of economic theory. In the long run, this will stimulate a fruitful interaction and improve economic theory as well as the concepts used in business accounts, economic policy, fiscal policy and statistics""(proposition accommodating my doctoral thesis)

"We need statistics not only for explaining things, but also in order to know precisely what there is to explain. … It is impossible to understand statistical figures without understanding how they have been compiled. It is equally impossible to extract information from them or to understand the information that specialists extract for the rest of us without understanding the methods by which this is done- and the epistemological backgrounds of these methods. Thus, an adequate command of modern statistical methods is a necessary (but not a sufficient) condition for preventing the modern economist from producing nonsense." (Schumpeter, 1945, History of Economic Analysis, p. 14).

"Economists are the rarest of birds... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher... He must understand symbols and speak in words. ... He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future" (Keynes, 1951, Essays in biography, p. 141)

“There is no unique correspondence between the functions that good institutions perform and the form that such institutions take. Reformers have substantial room for creatively packaging these principles into institutional designs that are sensitive to local constraints and take advantage of local opportunities. Successful countries are those that have used this room wisely” (Rodrik, 2007, One Economics Many Recipes, p. 15).


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