Time and the Macroeconomic Analysis of Income will undoubtedly puzzle, stimulate, infuriate, or annoy many readers. Alvaro Cencini challenges so many of the commonly held notions which are perpetuated in elementary textbooks and taken for granted in learned journals that a first reaction is bound to be that the author must be naive or ignorant – this is far from the case; the questions that Cencini raises are original and searching. His answers are even more intriguing for economists and interested readers.

Alvaro Cencini is an economist at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Italy.