All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary. Though the evidence that austerity is not working continues to mount, Germany and the other hawks have doubled down on it, betting Europe’s future on a long-discredited theory.
更加悲剧的是，欧洲的所有苦难——为了有利于人为造成的阴谋欧盟服务——根本毫无必要。尽管紧缩没有奏效的证据一天比一天多，但德国和其他鹰派仍在加倍下注，根据早已站不住脚的理论赌欧洲的未来。为什么还要为经济学家提供更多事实证明这一点呢？