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In 2010 Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff published Growth in a Time of Debt. It’s arguably one of the most influential economics papers of the decade, convincing the IMF to push austerity measures in the European debt crisis. It was a very, very big deal. In 2013 they shared their code with another team, who quickly found a bug. Once corrected, the results disappeared. Greece took on austerity because of a software bug....