Maybe it is excessive skittishness, or perhaps it is the result of global financial volatility in recent years – crises in Mexico in 1994-5, East Asia in 1997-98, Russia in 1998, and then in Brazil, Turkey, and Argentina – but we economists are more concerned about monetary affairs and possible future disasters than we have been in many decades.
也许是因为过于变化无常，抑或是近几年全球金融市场的风云变幻—1994-95年在墨西哥，1997-98年在东亚，1998年在俄罗斯及之后在巴西、土耳其和阿根廷发生的金融危机—我们这些经济学家变得比过去几十年更关注货币关系和未来可能发生的灾难。