May 26, 2013, 6:29 PM
The Wall
Street Journal
The gloves
are off in the roiling academic dispute over the merits of austerity and the
dangers of debt.
In the
latest round, Harvard economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart accused Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul
Krugman of “spectacularly uncivil behavior” and the inaccurate allegation that
they refused to share data supporting their work linking heavy debt levels to
subsequent slow economic growth.