Building the needed support for a new social contract will require an appeal to fairness, not just to fiscal rectitude. And a mechanism to authorize the new deal – such as a grand coalition actually empowered by elections (not just reluctant support by major parties for technocratic leaders like Italy’s Mario Monti) – is essential.
南欧给人的第二个教训是得过且过不可能奏效。形成对新社会契约的必须的支持要求公正，而不仅仅是财政清明。而授权这一新方案的机制——比如一个事实上由选举授权的大联盟（而非只是主要政党不情不愿地支持技术官僚领导人，如意大利的蒙蒂）——是至关重要的。