Keynesian economists blame the sluggish US growth and lack of job creation on the insufficiency of stimulus measures. If only Congress had agreed with President Obama to greater stimulus, they say, the current US recovery would have been much stronger. This is a dubious proposition. The deeper problem lay in the limitations of fiscal stimulus as a response to the 2008 crisis.
凱恩斯主義經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家將美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)疲軟及就業(yè)增長(zhǎng)乏力歸咎于經(jīng)濟(jì)刺激措施不夠有效。他們認(rèn)為,假如國(guó)會(huì)之前通過(guò)了奧巴馬(Obama)總統(tǒng)提出的規(guī)模更大的刺激方案,現(xiàn)在美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的復(fù)蘇勢(shì)頭本會(huì)強(qiáng)勁得多。這一論點(diǎn)可能不太站得住腳。更深層次的問(wèn)題在于,為應(yīng)對(duì)2008年金融危機(jī)而出臺(tái)的財(cái)政刺激措施存在局限性。