Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Damned If You Do: Comment on Schuler’s Argentina Analysis

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*David Altig* is a vice president and associate director of research in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and is an adjunct professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has also

Abstract

IN THE PREVIOUS ISSUE OF ECON JOURNAL WATCH, KURT Schuler (2005) surveys the truly painful travails of the Argentine people around the turn of the millennium, and the expert commentary from U.S. economists. Schuler sees messy footprints.