More progressive income taxation will also help stabilize the economy, through what economists call “automatic stabilizers.” It would also help if the advanced developed countries fulfilled their commitments to helping the world’s poorest by increasing their foreign-aid budgets to 0.7% of GDP.
首先，我们必须扭转令人担忧的不平等现象日益加剧的趋势。更多的累进所得税政策也将有助于经济的稳定，即通过经济学家所谓的“自动稳定器 ”。如果先进的发达国家履行其承诺以帮助世界上最贫穷的人，增加其对外援助预算到占国内生产总值的0.7 ％，这也将起一定作用。