At the height of the euro crisis, Mario Monti, the former Italian prime minister, liked to remark that part of the problem was that “for Germans, economics is still part of moral philosophy”. The suggestion was that the German instinct was to assign blame rather than to fix the problem — and was followed up with a reminder that the German words for guilt and debt are the same.
歐元危機最嚴重的時候,意大利前總理馬里奧?蒙蒂(Mario Monti)喜歡說,部分問題在于“對德國人而言,經濟學仍是道德哲學的一部分”。他的言下之意是,德國人的本能是責怪別人,而非解決問題——他接著又提醒人們,德語中“罪”和“債”是同一個詞。
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