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Lowering Expectations for Growth

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 11, 2014

James Galbraith, professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin, and author of The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth (Simon & Schuster, 2014)  argues that the "Great Crisis" of 2008 didn't interrupt a normal economic growth pattern -- that ended in the 1970s -- but that there are policies that would help cope with the new normal of instability.

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