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Governments Push for Austerity, but Can it Really Revive...

Season 2011 Episode 1810 | 8m 29s

Greek Parliament passed a bill to implement a new austerity plan Thursday, and Britain was in the throes of a national civil servant strike. Margaret Warner discusses whether austerity measures will likely help those countries with MIT's Simon Johnson and Mark Weisbort of the Center of Economic Policy and Research.

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