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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Top-down or middle-out? Debating the key to economic growth

Updated: July 28 2014,
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What’s the best engine to drive the economy? More money for the rich, or better wages for the working class? Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores the debate between those two lines of thought with billionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and noted libertarian law professor Richard Epstein.