Reinhart and Rogoff have strongly contested accusations by many commentators that they were willing, if not willful, participants in a game of political deception. They have defended their empirical methods and insist that they are not the deficit hawks that their critics portray them to be.
莱因哈特和罗格夫对众多批评家指其自愿参与政治欺骗游戏的质疑做出了强烈的回应。他们为自己使用的经验主义方法辩解，并坚持认为他们不属于批评者所描述的赤字鹰派阵营。