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
that are a preoccupation of a very large number of economists.

而这也是许多经济学家正在研究的问题
This idea, this first idea that Okun gaps exist,

最早提出奥肯产出缺口存在
and are large,

且缺口很大
and are very important relative to microeconomic inefficiencies

并和微观经济失灵有重要联系的观点
is one that is increasingly unfashionable today.

如今已经越来越不流行了
Discussing them within the context of what has been called,

在所谓新古典宏观经济学的框架里
although I suppose it can't be called that anymore,

虽然我觉得现在可能不能这么叫了