Tag Archives: Ken Rogoff

The Reinhart-Rogoff Film Festival: A Deleted Scene

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Win Smith

Alberto Cairo, who teaches Information Graphics and Visualization at the the University of Miami, has written about connected scatter plots on his blog (with a follow-up post here). He has been inspired, as I have, by Hans Rosling’s wonderful animated scatter … Continue reading →

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The Reinhart-Rogoff Film Festival

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Win Smith

“You can observe a lot by watching.”  – Yogi Berra  The biggest story in economics this year revolves around a study by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (“RR”).  Their work has been credited (or blamed) for efforts around the … Continue reading →

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A Tool That Would Have Helped Reinhart and Rogoff

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Win Smith

Economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff (“R&R”) have been widely cited for a study that concluded that growth rates for countries with public debt over 90% of GDP are lower than for countries with less debt.  A recent critique by Thomas Herndon … Continue reading →

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