What Use are the Economists? (Rodrik)

What use are the economists? by Dani Rodrik published by Project Syndicate (5/2013). “When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and other researchers. That is what happened when conservative American politicians and European Union officials latched on to the work of two Harvard professors – Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – to justify their support of fiscal austerity.”