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Oct, 2014 venezuelas spectacular underperformance oct, 2014 carmen m. Carmen reinhart and kenneth rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively. Eight centuries of financial folly, princeton university press, 2009. Reinhart and rogoff are confusing me august 11, 2010 4. Apr 17, 20 kenneth rogoff and carmen reinhart, the economists accused of getting their sums wrong in an influential study of the impact of high government debt, have hit back at their critics and defended. For carmen reinhart and ken rogoff, 20 has been a year to forget. Venezuelas spectacular underperformance by carmen m. The big news in the world of academic economics was that a celebrated and hugely influential paper by the harvard duo on the. A new paper, by university of massachusetts amherst economics doctoral student thomas herndon and professors michael ash and robert pollin, says harvard university scholars carmen reinhart and.
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