摘要
我想,在未来的历史学家们眼中,星期六在华盛顿召开的虎头蛇尾的二十国会议与其说是2.0版的布雷顿森林体系,不如说更像是1933年伦敦经济会议的翻版。回想当年,来自66个国家的代表未能就如何共同应对经济大萧条达成任何一致意见。责任主要在当时美国新当选的总统富兰克林·罗斯福,是他否决了欧洲提出的稳定货币的建议。
Future historians, I suspect, will look back on Saturday's anticlimactic Cr20 gathering in Washington less as Bretton Woods 2. 0 and more as a rerun of the London Economic Conference of 1933. Back then, representatives of 66 nations completely failed to agree on a concerted international response to the Great Depression. The fault lay mainly with the newly elected U. S. president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who vetoed European proposals for currency stabilization.