“Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the two economists who inspired the now-discredited claim that economic growth drops off sharply when a country’s debt exceeds 90% of GDP, have written an open letter to Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate and New York Times econoblogger, in which they condemn his ‘spectacularly uncivil behavior’ over the weeks since their key work was exposed as flawed …” (more)
[Alex Hern, New Statesman, 28 May]