EPISODE · May 11, 2014 · 11 MIN
7: Does austerity work? There’s no proof that it does
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Markus Eberhardt interviewed by Viv Davies, 11 May 2014The debt-growth link is essential to today's marcoeconomic policy choices. This Vox Talk discusses new evidence based on data on total public debt for 105 economies between 1972 and 2009 and two centuries of data for the UK, US, Sweden and Japan. There is no convincing proof that austerity works and that it is dangerous for policy makers to pretend otherwise.
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