CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, published a notorious book, Time on the Cross, defending the efficiency of American plantation slavery.
发自堪培拉&mdash;&mdash;由卡门·莱茵哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）的论文《债务时期的增长》引发的骚动也许是自1974年以来最引人注目并最具煽动性的学术争议。1974年，两位更早期的经济学家罗伯特·福格尔（Robert Fogel）和斯坦利·恩格曼（Stanley Engerman）发表了一部臭名昭著的著作&mdash;&mdash;《拐角时代：美国黑奴制度经济学》来为美国奴隶制的效率辩护。