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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA delightful, wee bit snarky, piece from UMass prof about her student's exposure of Reinhart
and Rugoff's fatally flawed study on financial instability and economic growth.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/replicating-research-austerity-and-beyond/?ref=business
Prof. Folbre explains the practice of replicating studies (or woeful lack thereof) and points to a real need for more stringent requirements for replication.
Good job, Dr. Folbre! These shills for the super rich, posing as academic economists and sitting in the highest levels of Ivy League schools, have been humiliated by a state university grad student, as she points out in a nice dig at Harvard!
malaise
(269,157 posts)This is huge
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)"old lions" who have been allowed to go soft and go corrupted.
A big win for the "good guys."
Scuba
(53,475 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)There's gonna be a whole lotta replicating going on by young grad students trying to pull down the high and mighty! Good for them!