How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue – and won

When Thomas Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s doctoral program in economics, spotted possible errors made by two eminent Harvard economists in an influential research paper, he called his girlfriend over for a second look. As they poured over the spreadsheets Herndon…

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How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue – and won