Attention Economy


Sunday, November 30, 2014

Poor Quality Economic Research

A ridiculous study on Chinese investment waste (which was hyped by the Financial Times – were the FT editors asleep?) is (rightly) lambasted on the blogosphere:

FT article (with an alarming headline) [gated version] – “China has ‘wasted’ $6.8tn in investment, warn Beijing researchers”:

Critiques of the study:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/diminishing-returns-arent-waste-wonkish/