Estas declaraciones de Vladimir Putin en Davos sobre la crisis suenan bastante austriacas:
The entire economic growth system, where one regional centre prints money without respite and consumes material wealth, while another regional centre manufactures inexpensive goods and saves money printed by other governments, has suffered a major setback. (...)
This means we must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and "bad" assets. True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalisation, bonuses or reputation. However, we would "conserve" and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets. I believe financial authorities must work out the required mechanism for writing off debts that corresponds to today's needs.
También alerta sobre la tentación de agrandar el Estado en tiempos de crisis, aludiendo a la Unión Soviética como ejemplo de sistema intervencionista "totalmente anti-competitivo" y que "nadie quiere verlo repetido".
The concentration of surplus assets in the hands of the state is a negative aspect of anti-crisis measures in virtually every nation.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.
No todo su discurso reluce igual, pero no está mal viniendo de un personaje a quien algunos medios y comentaristas occidentales acusan de sovietizar de nuevo Rusia.
