PARIS – Global policymakers regularly congratulate themselves on having avoided the policy errors of the 1930’s during the financial crisis that began in 2008. Led by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, an economic historian of the Great Depression, they remembered the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and loosened monetary and fiscal policy to avoid the worst.
巴黎—2008年爆发金融危机后，每隔一段时间，全球决策者就会拍手相庆，认为避免了20世纪30年代的政策失误。在大萧条经济史专家、美联储主席伯南克的领导下，他们牢记凯恩斯思想，放松货币和财政政策以避免最坏情形发生。我们至今仍在收拾预算烂摊子，特别是在欧洲。但是，2008年确实没有成为世界末日。