Does the 1930s housing boom offer lessons for today?

24 July 2012 Last updated at 18:36 ET Help

In the search for growth, some economists have been looking for lessons from the 1930s when a house building boom helped provide a way out of the financial crisis.

The BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders investigates.

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