At the heart of Germany's troubles is the stubborn – and internationally widespread – idea that the economy is a large, clock-like mechanism into which the state can intervene without consequences. The increasing mathematization of economics in recent decades has abetted this development.
德国问题的核心就在于受国际流行理念的影响，固执地认为经济是钟表般巨大的机械构造，可以任由政府随意干预而不会产生任何副作用。近几十年来经济学的数学化倾向也助长了这一趋势。