Summary: <p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Earlier this summer, we assembled five prominent economists from across the political spectrum and gave them a simple task: Identify major economic policies they could all stand behind.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">They agreed on a broad economic platform that would sink any political candidate that supported it. (Here's the <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/18/156928675/episode-387-the-no-brainer-economic-platform" target="_blank">show</a> we did on their platform; here's a <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-policies-economists-love-and-politicians-hate" target="_blank">blog post</a>.)</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Today, we talk to those economists again. This time, we hear a bunch of the ideas some of them liked but others shot down — including free heroin for addicts, a new tax on financial speculation, and $2 trillion in new, deficit spending on infrastructure projects.</p>
