Published Classic Cambridge Journal of Economics Online 24 Dec 2013 Published Mar 2014Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and RogoffThomas Herndon · M. Ash · Robert PollinA critical replication of Reinhart and Rogoff's "Growth in a Time of Debt" using their own working spreadsheet, which identifies three separate problems -- an unexplained exclusion of early post-war …