Investment, Summers-DeLong, and the Old Paradigm
Max Sawicky
sawicky at epinet.org
Thu Jun 11 11:30:14 PDT 1998
> The Summers-Delong paper does argue that investment is key to growth,
> although growth may spur investment in a reverse causality. Their data is
> historical. Today's investment,as Doug says, is very different.
If memory serves,
Jane Gravelle, of whom I think a lot, says if
you jiggle their data a little the results
fall apart,e.g., that they rest on a few itty-
bitty third world countries. (forgot which
ones)
MBS
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