Moving forwardFixing past compromises and mistakes : ghosts of '94

Alan Hirsch's article is a breath of fresh air. Too much of the debate about our economy focuses myopically on the last few years, or assumes ill faith on either side of the ideological divide. Hirsch rightly looks back beyond 2008 to the years around 1994 and urges us to consider as good-faith errors the actions of policymakers facing complex and intractable problems and constraints.