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Thursday, July 12, 2012

The A-List: Jeffrey Sachs - America’s economic debate is stuck in a time warp

The A-List: Jeffrey Sachs - America’s economic debate is stuck in a time warp
America’s economic debate is stuck in a time warp. The prescriptions of free market economics peddled by the Republicans – slash taxes and spending, end financial and environmental regulations – are throwbacks to the 1920s. The other side is only a little better. In Paul Krugman’s telling, we are in the 1930s – and there are no structural challenges, only shortfalls in aggregate demand. We need to move beyond these increasingly irrelevant ideologies.

http://link.ft.com/r/5F39HH/TUEFQA/YHT6RI/MS6K7S/8Z6749/KI/h?a1=2012&a2=7&a3=12

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