Daily Blog 04/20/2013
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Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement — Daily Intelligencer
Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst, just used part of his spring semester to shake the intellectual foundation of the global austerity movement.