The fact that many Western economies got out of recession last year should not fool us into thinking that the crisis was only a brief interlude, and that the post-crisis world can return to the pre-crisis status quo. There is pressure to re-write the history of this crisis by depicting effects as if they were causes, and to blame the governments that managed the crisis for starting it.
在危机最严峻的时期，各国政府拥有一个创建国际金融新架构的好机会，但这却被白白浪费掉了。虽然许多西方经济体已经在去年成功摆脱了衰退，但这并不能阻止我们怀疑这场危机是否只是某出戏剧的中场休息环节，而接着的后危机时代是否会回复到前危机中的那种糟糕状况。已经有些人开始要求重写整个危机的历史，将各国所做的努力解释为成因，并指责那些应对危机的政府其实是危机的始作俑者。