what has been done, what may happen, what should be done,

我们做了什么会发生什么应该做什么
and what can be done over the longer term

以及长期内我们还能做什么
to make the return of such a crisis more important--less likely.

以此降低下一次金融危机发生的可能性
Art was preoccupied through most of his career

亚特的一生都致力于
with the central macroeconomic issue of assuring stable growth.

解决宏观经济学中稳定增长的问题
To use language that's perhaps more congenial to older than younger ears--

用过去的话来说
avoiding underemployment and output gaps.

就是避免不充分就业和产出缺口
It's revealing that the journal he founded

亚特创办的刊物
was called the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity,

名为布鲁克林经济活动论文集
suggesting a concern with the cyclical performance of the economy.

一直关注经济周期活动的表现
He surely, as much as anyone,

他和其他很多人一样
would have subscribed to Jim Tobin's famous dictum--

同意詹姆斯·托宾那句名言