Wolf and Eichengreen would agree that the main shortcomings that led to the 2008 financial crisis – and that continue to underpin our inadequate response to it – are intellectual. Indeed, the only true lesson of the crisis so far seems to be that its lessons will never truly be learned.
沃尔夫和艾肯格林会认为，导致2008年金融危机的主要缺陷——以及继续破坏我们对危机的不充分反应的主要缺陷——是知识缺陷。事实上，到目前为止，危机的唯一真正教训是它的教训从未被真正汲取。