CAMBRIDGE – Greece and Italy, desperate after their gridlocked political systems left them mired in debt and crisis, have both chosen technocratic economists – Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, respectively – rather than politicians to lead new governments. Both can be described as professors: Monti has been president of Milan’s Bocconi University as well as a European Commissioner, and Papademos has been my colleague at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in the year since he finished his term as Deputy Governor of the European Central Bank.
坎布里奇——在因政治僵局导致深陷债务和危机而感到绝望后，希腊和意大利均选择了由经济学技术官僚——帕帕季莫斯和蒙蒂——而不是政客来领导新政府。蒙蒂和帕帕季莫斯都是教授：蒙蒂是米兰博科尼大学校长兼欧盟委员会委员，帕帕季莫斯从欧洲央行副行长位子上卸任后一直是我在哈佛大学肯尼迪政治学院的同事。