If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” This is “Stein’s law”, after its inventor Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon. Rüdiger Dornbusch, a US-based German economist, added: “The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”
“如果事情不能一直持續(xù)下去,它就會(huì)停下來(lái)。”這是以其發(fā)明者赫伯特?斯坦因(Herbert Stein)命名的“斯坦因定律”(Stein's law)。斯坦因是理查德?尼克松(Richard Nixon)任內(nèi)的白宮經(jīng)濟(jì)顧問(wèn)委員會(huì)(Council of Economic Advisers)主席。駐美德國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家魯?shù)细?多恩布什(Rüdiger Dornbusch)補(bǔ)充道:“危機(jī)到來(lái)所用的時(shí)間比你以為的久得多,然后它發(fā)生的速度又比你以為的快得多。”