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
that it takes a heap of Harberger triangles to fill an Okun gap--

许多哈伯格三角才能填满一个奥肯缺口
or that the macroeconomic issues of recession

或者说宏观经济的衰退和萧条
and depression are terribly, terribly important relative

是和微观经济的效率
to the microeconomic efficiencies

紧密联系在一起的