摘要：When Ted Evans returned to Australia in May 1993 to take up the post of Treasury Secretary after four years in Washington DC on the board of the International Monetary Fund, he found local economists — including policy advisers in his Department and many others with a professional interest in economic policy and analysis — in a mess. It was a mess largely of their own making, although it had been aided and abetted by widespread superficial commentary, especially from politicians who had absorbed the views of their expert official advisers, promoted them in the public's mind and were thereby seemingly locked into those views, almost regardless of their stupidity
