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Kenneth Rogoff, IMF Chief Economist 2001-2003

Stephen Sackur talks to Ken Rogoff, an economist who's studied 800 years' worth of financial crises and their consequences. Based on the past, how worrying is the future?

Could an overenthusiastic commitment to austerity economics be about to throw the world back into recession? It is a question which stirs deep disagreement among top economists, but what does history tell us about the depth of the economic hole we're in? Stephen Sackur talks to Ken Rogoff, a Harvard economist who has studied 800 years' worth of financial crises and their consequences. Based on the past, how worried should we be about the immediate future?

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