This opposition is not coming only from politicians who are calculating that opposition to whatever is proposed may yield electoral benefits; indeed, it does not even reflect any coherent right-wing or indeed left-wing political position. Root-and-branch stimulus opponents whose work has crossed my desk recently include efficient-markets fundamentalists like the University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama, Marxists like CUNY’s David Harvey, classical economists like Harvard’s Robert Barro, gold bugs like the Council on Foreign Relation's Benn Steil, and a host of others.
这种反对的声音不仅仅是来自政客们，因为他们知道“抵制任何提案”都会给他们带来选票的好处；实际上，这也不能完全归咎于一贯的“行右实左”政治立场。让我来列出反对者的完全名单：芝加哥大学教授，“有效市场”理论的“宗师”尤金·法玛；纽约市立大学教授，马克思主义的捍卫者大卫·哈维；哈佛大学教授，古典经济学者罗伯特·巴罗，还有对外关系委员会的本•斯泰尔这样的“金本位主义者”等。