CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, published a notorious book, Time on the Cross, defending the efficiency of American plantation slavery.
CAMBERRA – A confusão que se gerou à volta do artigo de Carmen Reinhart e Kenneth Rogoff “Growth in a Time of Debt” pode ser a controvérsia académica mais intempestiva e conspícua desde 1974, quando dois economistas anteriores, Robert Fogel e Stanley Engerman, publicaram o conhecido livro, Time on the Cross, onde defendiam a eficiência da escravatura americana.