The past two years have not enhanced the reputation of economists. Mostly they failed to point out fundamental weaknesses of financial markets and did not foresee the crisis, and now they disagree on appropriate policies and on the likely future course of events. Although more economic research has been done in the past 25 years than ever before, the economists whose names are most frequently referenced today, such as Hyman Minsky and John Maynard Keynes, are from earlier generations.
過去兩年對(duì)于提高經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家的聲望沒有什么幫助。主要原因在于，他們沒能指出金融市場(chǎng)的根本弱點(diǎn)，沒有預(yù)見到危機(jī)的來臨，現(xiàn)在他們又對(duì)適宜的政策以及未來事態(tài)的發(fā)展意見不一。雖然過去25年開展的經(jīng)濟(jì)研究比以往任何時(shí)候都多，但如今引用得最多的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家的名字——比如海曼?明斯基(Hyman Minsky)和約翰?梅納德?凱恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)——卻來自較早幾代人。