A delightful, wee bit snarky, piece from UMass prof about her student's exposure of Reinhart

[CTyankee]

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]

1. Good read

This is huge

[CTyankee]

2. Isn't it great? Nice to see the younger economists still in grad school, going after the

"old lions" who have been allowed to go soft and go corrupted.

A big win for the "good guys."

[Scuba]

3. Good read. "De Omnibus Est Disputandum: argue about everything."

[CTyankee]

4. Ya, no kidding!

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!

[malaise]

5. Delish!