クルーグマンがサイモン・レンールイスの今年5月の表題の論文(原題は「A General Theory of Austerity」)に言及している*1。 以下は同論文の結論部。 This paper has argued that there was no good macroeconomic reason for austerity at the global level over the last five years, and austerity seen in periphery Eurozone countries could most probably have been significantly milder. As austerity could have been so easily avoided by delaying global fiscal consolidat