Germany’s reluctance to lead on these issues partly reflects historical inhibitions, which are always difficult to overcome. The persistence of pre-Keynesian orthodoxy in German economic thought, with its moral abhorrence of the “sin of borrowing” (and thus its neglect of aggregate demand), does not help, either.
德国不愿在这些问题上带头，这部分反映了历史性的抑制，很难克服。德国经济思想以前凯恩斯时代的思想为正统，德国人从道德上讨厌“借贷的罪恶”（而因此忽视总需求），这也起不了促进作用。此外，德国政治制度的联邦型结构有利于各自为政，不利于顶层设计。