Lessons to be gleaned from the Rogoff & Reinhart debacle if economic analysis is to continue to be taken seriously.
Project Syndicate
Open-Access Economics
Barry Eichengreen | Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund
This is an article by an established member of the economics profession (Barry Eichengreen) trying to make excuses for two other members of the profession who are incompetent liars: Rogoff and Reinhart.
ReplyDeleteI put a suitably sarcastic comment after the article.
I just plonked another comment on the Project Syndicate site having a go at Michael Heller who is a deficit terrorist. Anyone want to join in? If you do, note that the most recent comments are AT THE TOP, while responses to existing comments are UNDER those comments. That makes it a little awkward to follow an argument. See:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.project-syndicate.org/blog/reckless-caution--the-stress-and-strain-of-sovereign-debt-by-michael-heller