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Apr 25, 2013 Joaquín Almunia , Eduardo Pérez Motta

布鲁塞尔/墨西哥城—2008年全球经济衰退开始以来，争论一直集中在解决危机、创造复苏的宏观经济战略和工具上。但纠正失衡和解决短期减速或衰退虽然重要，并不应该压倒为稳健可持续的经济增长创造长期条件的需要。

目前，宏观经济政策既被指为经济问题的罪魁，也是克服经济问题的希望。但我们应该把同样多的注意力放在微观经济问题上，比如激励不振、市场失灵和监管短缺，这是导致衰退的最初原因。

事实上，正如金融部门的微观经济问题触发了信贷动荡、助长了全球衰退，微观经济因素也是复苏的关键。许多经济需要修正金融部门、重塑信用，更多的国家需要提升生产率以提振增长、创造就业。

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Joaquín Almunia

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Joaquín Almunia is Vice President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Competition.

Eduardo Pérez Motta

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Eduardo Pérez Motta is President of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission and Chair of the International Competition Network.

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Joseph Blower May 3, 2013

"To achieve this, we first must follow the Hippocratic oath and avoid doing more harm."
I disagree. Economists typically don't believe in free lunches. For almost any decision there are both costs ("harms") and benefits.
Rather, we should maximize benefits (all things considered), relative to harms. That is, we should think like utilitarians (google "utilitarianism").
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udi cohen Apr 30, 2013

Competition- yes Growth- no. the pursue after consistent growth encourage efficiency or in other words reducing work power or unemployment especially in times of recession. and encourage innovation - which usually is good and ,no doubt, inevitable as blessed - which in the broad spectrum lead us, again, to less work force and in a world that most of the population is compose of 'low tech' work force we get back to unemployment and unemployment result disorder and instabilty. there for, we need to incentive competition ,but not Growth, domestically by constraining the monopolistic powers and dominate firms. that should be done until a solution will be found to 'how to comprehend this technological era world wide'.
in addition, Growth was also the main cause- after greed - to the numerous leveraging that was possible thank to the stock market and is greed companion.
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Zsolt Hermann Apr 25, 2013

I fully agree with this statement:
"...To achieve this, we first must follow the Hippocratic oath and avoid doing more harm..."
For any healing, any solution this is the first step we need to achieve, there is another expression, "when you do not know where to go forward it is better to sit and do nothing...".
But this is only the start.
For any solution, healing then one needs a foundation, the precise diagnosis of what has caused the problem, if we continue in the wrong framework, going off the right path, even our best intention will only yield further worsening, crisis.
And unfortunately from here on the article sets up the same misdiagnosis many other similar articles, and most of today's leaders, economic experts make.
We cannot expect further growth the way we are hoping.
Constant quantitative growth is a dream, it is impossible in a closed, finite natural system.
It has no natural foundation, it goes against all of nature's laws.
Every living, integral system is based on balance and homeostasis. Ruthless competition, constant self-calculations leads to destruction in such systems, like cancer in the body.
Europe is a prime example for this, although there is recognition of the need of unity, cooperation, they wanted to achieve this in a partial way, selfish, greedy, set up common currency, common market and now common financial regulations to increase profit, while leaving everything else separate, still keeping competition in between the states in the union.
Now we can see how it "works", sliding into inevitable collapse.
Humanity is a single, globally interconnected and interdependent system, whether we want it or not.
This is not human made, we evolved into such a state, we have no free choice about it, we cannot decide to disconnect or withdraw. We are regulated by natural laws that are "above us".
Self benefiting competition, exploitation of others for the sake of the self has to give way to mutually responsible cooperation, to form a mutually complementing human network, which is working for the benefit of the whole.
In a global, integral system the individual or even a nation can only succeed, prosper, when the whole system is healthy and functions optimally.
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