诺贝尔经济得奖评价澳洲政府在GFC上表现

weic

经常看到某些人自以为自己是专家，评判政府在经济危机中乱花钱，以下是诺贝尔经济将得主对此问题的回答，希望你们不要再自以为是啦。。。
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2965891.htm

KERRY O'BRIEN: There's been a lot of criticism of waste in the way some of Australia's stimulus money was spent. Is it inevitable if you're going to spend a great deal of government money quickly that there will be some waste and can you ever justify wasting taxpayers' money?

JOSEPH STIGLITZ: If you hadn't spent the money, there would have been waste. The waste would have been the fact that the economy would have been weak, there would have been a gap between what the economy could have produced and what it actually produced - that's waste. You would have had high unemployment, you would have had capital assets not fully utilised - that's waste. So your choice was one form of waste verses another form of waste. And so it's a judgment of what is the way to minimise the waste. No perfection here. And what your government did was exactly right. So, Australia had the shortest and shallowest of the downturns of the advanced industrial countries. And, ah, your recovery actually preceded the - in some sense, China. So there was a sense in which you can't just say Australia recovered because of China. Your preventive action, you might say pre-emptive action, prevented the downturn while things got turned around in Asia, and they still have not gotten turned around in Europe and America.

BennyQ

总算有人帮政府说句话了！

王尔德

這種不咸不淡的評論說了和沒說一樣...