{"id":1267,"date":"2013-04-22T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/bohmerp\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2013-04-22T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:51:33","slug":"my-reflection-on-thomas-herndons-expose-of-a-study-often-quoted-to-justify-austerity-i-e-cutting-social-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/my-reflection-on-thomas-herndons-expose-of-a-study-often-quoted-to-justify-austerity-i-e-cutting-social-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"My reflection on Thomas Herndon\u2019s expos\u00e9 of a study often quoted to justify austerity; i.e., cutting social programs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/files\/2013\/04\/Thomas.docx\">The importance of Thomas Herndon&#8217;s rebutting of the supposed evidence for Neoliberalism <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Herndon&#8217;s  purpose for studying economics was so that he could learn to more effectively criticize and challenge the unequal and unjust economic system of capitalism, to challenge its apologists and to be able to work with the 99% to develop short and long run alternatives to this unsustainable system. &#8230; I am quite sure that Thomas Herndon\u2019s healthy skepticism for the mainstream austerity prescription  led to his decision to study their data and methodology, to request their data  and to carefully examine it. Thomas showed clearly and definitively their many errors and most importantly, proved that their data does not support their conclusion that austerity is the necessary medicine for countries with significant deficits and debt.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}