Person

Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff

Economists who documented serial financial crises and the recurring belief that this time is different.

Why this matters

Reinhart and Rogoff discipline debt euphoria—sediment of crises institutions prefer to forget.

Works

book

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff. *This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly*. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

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Book

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