Back then, Ronald Reagan used to joke: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help!” Now that governments have spent trillions of dollars, euros, yen, and pounds on stabilizing financial markets and the economy in general, those words seem far less terrifying.
当人们回首往昔之时，爆发于2008年的金融与经济危机将会被视为一个变革性的时刻，这是因为这场危机就经济体系的未来形态提出了具有根本意义的问题。这些问题并不像某些人所认为、甚至所期望的那样，与资本主义的终结有多大关联，而是与不同国家对资本主义的不同理解方式有关。