[raspberry1337]

>Really? Because post-GFC there was all sorts of economic experimentation with regards to austerity:

You can't just spam out a number of articles and expect me to read them all and make out your point for you. Please, this is not reddit.

If you have a counterpoint to make to the fact that no economic experiment can be conducted in real time in the market, and also be repeated, then please share it. I'd love to hear it.

From your first source, just as an example.

>we explore the correlations in the data starting from the simplest and gradually building up – in a step-by-step, transparent manner – to multivariate regressions based on various samples of countries for different periods.

So they looked at data from one unique timeperiod in history. This is not a repeatable experiment.