Greece never had the productive structure to be as rich as it was: its income was inflated by massive amounts of borrowed money that was not used to upgrade its productive capacity. According to the Atlas of Economic Complexity, which I co-authored, in 2008 the gap between Greece's income and the knowledge content of its exports was the largest among a sample of 128 countries.
希腊从未拥有能让它曾经如此富裕的生产结构：其收入是用大量借款推起来的，而这笔借款本来可以用于升级其生产力。我参与合著的《经济复杂性的阿特拉斯》（Atlas of Economic Complexity）一书指出，2008年希腊收入与其出口的只是成分之间的差距是128个样本国家中最大的。