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Re:Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone by monocasa on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:12PM (#19649514)
Austerity didn't help. The R&R paper that they based the austerity on turned out to not be properly peer reviewed, and surprise, had a some arthmetic errors that when fixed contradict the original result.
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Re:Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone by behindmyscreen on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:02AM (#19652483)
Yeah... everyone I talked at the time to said austerity is the wrong tactic.
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Re:Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone by rohit2412 on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:08PM (#19649845)
Wait what? Could you expand on that?

That seems to be very stupid "mistake" from some very important economists.

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Re:Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone by monocasa on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:18PM (#19649903)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
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