This raised uncomfortable questions not only about the efficacy of austerity, but also about the reliability of economic analysis. How could a flawed study have appeared first in the prestigious working-paper series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and then in a journal of the American Economic Association?
这不仅引发了令人不安的关于财政紧缩有效性的问题，也令人开始担忧经济分析是否依然可靠。一个有缺陷的研究怎么能现身于著名的美国国家经济研究局工作文件系列文献之中，随后还被刊登在美国经济学会发布的期刊上？如果这是有可能的，政策制定者以及有辨别能力的公众又如何能够赋予经济研究任何可信度？