Their most obvious advantage is apparent when a country faces problems – for example, proposing economic reforms or negotiating loan terms – that are largely technical. A good precedent in Italy is Carlo Ciampi, who took the reins of government in 1993, after Italy was forced to drop out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and managed to repeal the scala mobile (the wage-indexation system), beat down inflation, and re-board the train of European monetary integration.
当一国面临技术含量较高的问题时，技术官僚的优势就显现无疑了——比如在制定经济改革方案和贷款期限谈判方面。意大利前总理钱皮就是很好的例子，他在1993年意大利被迫退出欧洲汇率机制后执掌政府，成功地废除了工资指数调解制度（意大利的工资指数化体系），阻击了通货膨胀，并让意大利重回欧洲货币一体化进程。