The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later
Baker, Dean
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/08/the-great-spreadsheet-blunder/
Date Written: 2014-05-08
Publisher: Counterpunch
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX16313
It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.