One can criticize details of Brock’s case: a deeper understanding of Keynes would have given him a more persuasive response to the objection that, if state-financed projects were worth doing, the private sector would be doing them. Before long, we will have to provide answers to these questions, because the pre-slump fiscal rules that the Europeans are vainly trying to strengthen were not up to the job.
你或许会批评布洛克观点的某些细节：如果能够根深地理解凯恩斯，他将能更有力地反驳“如果国家出资的项目值得进行，那么私人部门早就在这么做了”之类的诘难。要不了多久，我们就不得不回答这些问题，因为危机前欧洲人徒劳地试图不断强化的财政规则并不见效。