Kent Hughes - Is this the beginning of the end of the austerity-first approach to economic policy?
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Channel: WoodrowWilsonCenter · 2012 · News & Politics
Is this the beginning of the end of the austerity-first approach to economic policy? Kent Hughes is director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Program on America and the Global Economy. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and previously served as Deputy Secretary of Commerce, President of the Council on Competitiveness, and Chief Economist to Senate Majority Leader, Robert C. Byrd. Visit the Context episode here: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/the-end-austerity-politics-europe
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