Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative, if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an article in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Prof Johnson compares the hold of the “financial oligarchy” over US policy with that of business elites in emerging countries. Do such comparisons make sense? The answer is Yes, but only up to a point.
美國是俄羅斯嗎？這個問題看上去即便不是聳人聽聞，也會引起爭議。但提出這個問題的卻是西蒙?約翰遜(Simon Johnson)——前國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)首席經(jīng)濟學(xué)家、麻省理工學(xué)院斯隆管理學(xué)院(MIT Sloan School of Management)現(xiàn)任教授。在《大西洋月刊》(Atlantic Monthly) 5月號的一篇文章中，約翰遜教授將“金融寡頭”對美國政策的操縱，與新興國家商業(yè)精英對政策的左右進行了比較。這種對比有意義嗎？答案是肯定的，但僅僅在一定程度上是如此。