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Is it possible to kickstart an economy?

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12 September 2010

Mark Littlewood appears on BBC Radio Wales' The Sunday Supplement to debate the effect of government stimulus packages

With US President Barack Obama announcing a large-scale, government-directed investment programme for infrastructure this week, Mark Littlewood discusses whether such Keynesian projects can actually serve to kickstart an economy, and whether something similar could work in the UK

Listen to the interview here [2] (segment starts at 47:30).

 

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[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tnlnl/The_Sunday_Supplement_12_09_2010/