Nicola Acocella is Emeritus Professor of Economic Policy at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has previously published three books with Cambridge University Press: The Foundations of Economic Policy (1998), Economic Policy in the Age of Globalization (2010), and The Theory of Economic Policy in a Strategic Context (2012) with Giovanni Di Bartolomeo and Andrew Hughes Hallett. Giovanni Di Bartolomeo is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is an active policy advisor for the Italian Ministry of Economics, where he contributes to build and estimate the DSGE model of the Department of Treasury. In 2012, he published The Theory of Economic Policy in a Strategic Context (Cambridge) with Nicola Acocella and Andrew Hughes Hallett. Andrew Hughes Hallett is Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews, University Professor at the George Mason University, Virginia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has published papers in leading economics journals, as well as in mathematics, political science and history, and is ranked in the top half percent of economists by publications worldwide.