At issue is an influential 2010 paper by Rogoff and Reinhart that purports to show that high levels of public debt are associated with lower long-term economic growth. A new paper by Thomas Herndon, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and two of his professors, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, questioned this finding, and Krugman made their work famous.
问题来自罗格夫和莱因哈特2010年的一篇著名论文。这篇论文证明了公债水平高企与经济增长低落有关。麻州大学安姆赫斯特分校一名叫做托马斯·赫恩顿的研究生和他的两位教授迈克尔·阿什和罗伯特·波林发表了一篇论文质疑罗格夫和莱因哈特，而克鲁格曼让后一篇论文名声大噪。