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I love that the grad student who caught it came from a Marxist-oriented economics program. He legit figured it out by trying to replicate the results published
by teachrdan 3y ago
I love that the grad student who caught it came from a Marxist-oriented economics program. He legit figured it out by trying to replicate the results published by Reinhart and Rogoff.
Not-so-fun fact: Economists don't publish their actual Excel spreadsheets, which would have made their error trivial to prove, but just the results!
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-error-heard-round-the-world https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-error-heard-round...