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Debt, Growth and Coding Errors
Tom McDonnell 17/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: Reinhart and Rogoff's finding that the growth rate starts to decline once the public debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90% has become embraced as a stylised fact by the commentariat and in particular by the austerians. However, a recent paper by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin has critiqued this finding. As Slate reports here, …
Bringing Balance to Imbalance
Tom McDonnell 16/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: The results of the EU Commission's review of macroeconomic imbalances can be seen here. Andrew Watt attacks the partiality and …
We need to rethink macroeconomics
Slí Eile 18/02/2010
Slí Eile: In a paper by staff of the International Monetary Fund (Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy) authors Olivier Blanchard, Giovanni …
Krugman on macroeconomics and the 'Great Ignorance'
27/06/2009
"Doing what I think of as real macroeconomics — the tradition that runs through Keynes and Hicks — actually involves thinking about …
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