Repeated financial crises have tempered even the right’s faith in unregulated markets, while the left has become more realistic and cautious about state planning and bureaucratic processes. Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed “goods” is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens’ understandable tendency to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.
在回顾几十年来的实际经济政策演化时，我们看到它们总是结合了中右翼和中左翼的元素。金融危机的反复发生让右翼对不受管制的市场的信念也有所动摇，而左翼对国家计划和官僚主义程序变得更加现实和谨慎。类似地，私人消费和公共消费“商品”之间的选择通常也是模糊的，政客总是强化公民要求公共品同时又拒绝为此纳税的倾向（这一倾向倒是不难理解）。