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不作为的代价

Apr 28, 2009 J. Bradford DeLong

伯克利——世界各国的政府有能力将世界经济带出影响如此深远的萧条么？三个月以前，我还这么认为，不过，现在我不敢肯定了。

问题的关键不再于各国的政府知不知道应该怎么做，应对如何应对这场影响深远的金融危机，在过去的两百年内，我们的前辈先贤已经给出过了标准的答案：1825年的英国中央银行行长Cornelius Buller，《经济学人》维多利亚时代的总编辑白芝浩;以及当代的经济学家欧文·费雪, 约翰•梅纳德•凯恩斯,米尔顿·弗里德曼等等。

历次金融危机的核心问题都是如何保证投资者安全，稳定和流动的资产，对于政府来说，解决问题的答案就是提供更多的流动现金来满足这种需求。

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J. Bradford DeLong

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J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was Deputy Assistant US Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration, where he was heavily involved in budget and trade negotiations. His role in designing the bailout of Mexico during the 1994 peso crisis placed him at the forefront of Latin America’s transformation into a region of open economies, and cemented his stature as a leading voice in economic-policy debates.