adopted policies similar to the Fed's — and averted a potential Lehman-like collapse in Europe. (Mitt Romney's two most prominent academic advisers, Glenn Hubbard and Gregory Mankiw, seem to recognize this, but Romney apparently doesn't. As recently as August the Republican presidential nominee repeated his c

lty math; his economic arguments contradict themselves, op-ed, Aug. 16]. The case offered by Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School contained three bold claims. Two of the three are demonstrably wrong as matters of economics, and the other is off-point