> The entire economic approach of some countries has been based, or at least heavily influenced by, on a paper that no one had bothered actually checking. Er,

> The entire economic approach of some countries has been based, or at least heavily influenced by, on a paper that no one had bothered actually checking. Er, no. Reinhart and Rogoff's paper was published in 2010. The debate of keynesian stimulus vs. austerity vs. non-interventionism is much, much older than that.