作者:
雅尼斯・瓦魯法克斯 Yanis Varoufakis 出版社: 八旗文化 副标题: 我與歐盟、歐洲央行、國際貨幣基金組織的大債角力戰 原作名: Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment 译者:
吳凱琳 出版年: 2020-8-20 ISBN: 9789865524197
‘There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct rule: never turn against other insiders and never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do. Their reward? Access to inside information and a chance, though no guarantee, of influencing powerful people and outcomes.’ With that Summers arrived at his question. ‘So, Yanis,’ he said, ‘which of the two are you?’
Instinct urged me to respond with a single word; instead I used quite a few.
‘By character I am a natural outsider,’ I began, ‘but,’ I hastened to add, ‘I am prepared to strangle my c... (查看原文)
Feeling he needed to wrap up his soliloquy, he rushed to the one thing he wanted from me:
I want to implore you to promise me something. I know you will win the election. I talk to people on the street and there is no doubt that you will. Please, when you win, when you are in office, remember those people. Do something for them. Not for me! I am finished. Those of us whom the crisis felled, we cannot come back. It is too late for us. But, please, please do something for those who are still on the verge. Who are clinging by their fingernails. Who have not fallen yet. Do it for them. Don’t let them fall. Don’t turn your back to them. Don’t sign what they give you like the previous ones did. Swear that you won’t. Do you swear?
‘I swear,’ was my two-word answer to him.
A week later I was takin... (查看原文)
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0 有用 helloworld 2023-03-13 10:42:59 北京
很难得的如此近距离观察欧洲政治，希腊左派仿佛在完成一个不可能的任务，而且很惊讶希腊内部还有相当数量愿意跟“三巨头”合作的右派。不过文字略显啰嗦，本不需要这么长篇幅，以及不排除作者对自己正面形象的塑造有夸张成分，所以扣一星吧。但并不妨碍这是一本好书。