Austerity had failed repeatedly, from its early use under US President Herbert Hoover, which turned the stock-market crash into the Great Depression, to the IMF “programs” imposed on East Asia and Latin America in recent decades. And yet when Greece got into trouble, it was tried again.
我们不需要其他验证了。紧缩一再失败，从美国总统胡佛的早期尝试（将股市崩盘变成了大萧条），到近几十年来IMF给东亚和拉美制定的“计划”莫不如此。而当希腊陷入麻烦时，我们又一次祭出了紧缩。