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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