大规模的通货紧缩带来一个极大的问题：人类能否设计和实现一个新的、技术先进的“绿色”布雷顿森林体系 — — 一个使我们的地球生态和经济可持续发展的系统 — — 而无需引发原有布雷顿森林体系建立之前的那种大范围人民疾苦和破坏效应？
The Great Deflation poses a great question: can humanity design and implement a new, technologically advanced, “green” Bretton Woods – a system that makes our planet ecologically and economically sustainable – without the mass pain and destruction preceding the original Bretton Woods?