Comments on: NYT Profile of Reinhart and Rogoff http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/07/04/nyt-profile-of-reinhart-and-rogoff/ Thu, 24 May 2012 02:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: karl deeter http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/07/04/nyt-profile-of-reinhart-and-rogoff/#comment-58596 karl deeter Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:22:03 +0000 http://www.irisheconomy.ie/?p=7037#comment-58596 one person who did a similar study and shared all the info was the economic historian david hacket fischer, his book 'great waves, price fluctuations in history' (or something like that) is half bibliog/ref/index and he goes back over 800 yrs. you can get it on oxford press. i'm surprised that he isn't referenced more often, but 'this time it's different' is obviously more 'today' relevant than 'great waves' which was published in 96' one person who did a similar study and shared all the info was the economic historian david hacket fischer, his book ‘great waves, price fluctuations in history’ (or something like that) is half bibliog/ref/index and he goes back over 800 yrs. you can get it on oxford press. i’m surprised that he isn’t referenced more often, but ‘this time it’s different’ is obviously more ‘today’ relevant than ‘great waves’ which was published in 96′

]]> By: AMcGrath http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/07/04/nyt-profile-of-reinhart-and-rogoff/#comment-58534 AMcGrath Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:06:26 +0000 http://www.irisheconomy.ie/?p=7037#comment-58534 Could this be true? --- “Economists have physics envy,” says Richard Sylla -- how does it manifest - your mathematical model is bigger than mine .. I supect a grain of truth here - of course some psychologists and sociologists etc also would like to "scientificise" their disciplines also - possibly as a result of the disdain of physicists. It's not respectable unless it can be modelled. Could this be true?
— “Economists have physics envy,” says Richard Sylla –

how does it manifest - your mathematical model is bigger than mine ..

I supect a grain of truth here - of course some psychologists and sociologists etc also would like to “scientificise” their disciplines also - possibly as a result of the disdain of physicists. It’s not respectable unless it can be modelled.

]]> By: Brian Lucey http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/07/04/nyt-profile-of-reinhart-and-rogoff/#comment-58477 Brian Lucey Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:57:26 +0000 http://www.irisheconomy.ie/?p=7037#comment-58477 hardly scathing. More whinging tbh hardly scathing. More whinging tbh

]]> By: Taylor http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/07/04/nyt-profile-of-reinhart-and-rogoff/#comment-58444 Taylor Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:50:56 +0000 http://www.irisheconomy.ie/?p=7037#comment-58444 OTOH Dean Baker has a scathing rebuttal: <i>"Actually, much of the fodder for the public debate has been over a separate paper that claims that economies perform more poorly once their debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90 percent. Mr Rogoff and Ms. Reinhart have declined to adhere to standard ethics within the economics profession and have refused to share the data on which they base their conclusion with other researchers."</i> http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/not-following-professional-ethics-matters-also OTOH Dean Baker has a scathing rebuttal:

“Actually, much of the fodder for the public debate has been over a separate paper that claims that economies perform more poorly once their debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90 percent. Mr Rogoff and Ms. Reinhart have declined to adhere to standard ethics within the economics profession and have refused to share the data on which they base their conclusion with other researchers.”

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/not-following-professional-ethics-matters-also

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