{"id":3845,"date":"2012-02-23T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2012-02-23T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:08:51","slug":"papadimitriou-on-cross-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/papadimitriou-on-cross-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Papadimitriou on Cross Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Everyone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=3768\">Amity Shlaes<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entries\/huh-romney-warns-spending-cuts-will-slow-recovery\">Mitt Romney<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=3819\">European Commission<\/a> has been telling us lately that slashing government spending under current economic conditions will depress growth.\u00a0 On &#8220;Cross Talk&#8221; Dimitri Papadimitriou debates the merits (or lack thereof) of austerity and explains why the United States of Europe needs to become more like the United States of America:<\/div>\n<p><object style=\"height: 273px; width: 448px;\" width=\"273\" height=\"448\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AeV_0onC3UU?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage&amp;start=456\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the last exchange, when Fragkiskos Filippaios asks, with respect to the idea of a common fiscal policy for Europe, &#8220;who&#8217;s going to be responsible for that?&#8221; you can hear Papadimitriou&#8217;s reply:\u00a0 the European Parliament.\u00a0 For more on his views about how to complete the incomplete Union in Europe, see Papadimitriou&#8217;s latest policy brief, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/publications\/?docid=1496\">Fiddling in Euroland<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone from Amity Shlaes to Mitt Romney and the European Commission has been telling us lately that slashing government spending under current economic conditions will depress growth.\u00a0 On &#8220;Cross Talk&#8221; Dimitri Papadimitriou debates the merits (or lack thereof) of austerity and explains why the United States of Europe needs to become more like the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,49],"tags":[141,213,31,1131,19],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","category-eurozone-crisis","category-fiscal-policy","tag-austerity","tag-eu","tag-eurozone","tag-fiscal-policy","tag-greece"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}