经济展望:与日本经济停滞年代初期相比,迄今西方世界的经济结果要糟得多。在过去几年中,大西洋两岸的决策者们一再表述同样的信息。日本的经济停滞应被视为绝无仅有的。它不会发生在西方,因为日本,不知何故,有所不同。西方国家的经济比日本更灵活, Economic Outlook: The economic outcome of the Western world so far has been far worse than that of Japan’s stagnant economy. In the past few years, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have repeatedly stated the same message. Japan’s economic stagnation should be considered unique. It does not happen in the West because Japan, somehow, is different. Western economies are more flexible than Japan,