财政整顿的美学

The Aesthetics of Fiscal Consolidation

无论是宏观经济还是微观经济都保持着其审美维度,本文专注于财政整顿这一问题。为了找出财政整顿中的美学,必须认识到这个问题也可以当作一个文化问题加以思考。因为财政整顿在退出技术争论之时被加以转化并一跃进入公共领域,这一路径是可能实现的。为了具体起见,本文关注财政整顿的一个具体案例:2011年11月至2012年12月在意大利由蒙蒂政府所推行的财政整顿。本文通过讨论这一时期蒙蒂政府在意大利进行的政策行为,发现其财政整顿的审美维度,证明其财政整顿的美学与意大利新总理及其内阁的美学恰好相符。

Both the micro-economy and the macro-economy retain an aesthetic dimension. I will focus on the issue of fiscal consolidation. In order to recover the aesthetics that underlies it, it is necessary to recognize that it can also be approached as a cultural issue. This is possible whenever we take into account how fiscal consolidation is transformed as it exits the realm of technical debate and is catapulted into the public sphere. For the sake of concreteness, I will focus on one specific instance of fiscal consolidation : that carried out by the Monti government in Italy between November 2011 and December 2012. I will uncover the aesthetic dimension of fiscal consolidation and will argue that the aesthetics of fiscal consolidation in that specific instance coincided with the aesthetics of the new Italian premier and his cabinet.