American economist — Harvard professor — former Chief Economist of the IMF — author of This Time Is Different (with Carmen Reinhart) — the most widely cited economist on government debt, financial crises, and central banking.
Creates the comprehensive historical database of financial crises — Rogoff and Reinhart's This Time Is Different (mapping 800 years of financial crises across 66 countries) is the most cited empirical contribution to the economics of sovereign debt and became the intellectual foundation for austerity arguments after 2008.
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