NEW DELHI – Why do high-profile economic tussles turn so quickly to ad hominem attacks? Perhaps the most well-known recent example has been the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman’s campaign against the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in which he moved quickly from criticism of an error in one of their papers to charges about their commitment to academic transparency.
新德里—为何高水平经济争论会这么快演变为人身攻击？最著名的最新例子要数诺贝尔经济学奖获得者保罗·克鲁格曼抨击经济学家卡门·莱因哈特和肯尼斯·罗格夫了，克鲁格曼一开始批评的是他们论文中的一个错误，但很快，批评目标变成了他们对学术透明度的承诺。