sentences:  Thomas Herndon
  
  Thomas Herndon (born 1985) is an assistant professor of economics at Loyola Marymount University, who, as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, became known for critiquing "Growth in a Time of Debt", a widely cited academic paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff supporting the austerity policies implemented by governments in Europe and North America in the early 21st century.His research concluded that these measures may not have been necessary.