Comments and Thoughts

摘要

We are grateful to the seven respondents who have given serious consideration to our article. Their commentaries serve to widen its theoretical and practical implications and to widen its field of application. One example of this last contribution is Braun's suggestion that our analysis in terms of the C-A-P triangle could be used as a heuristic to provide a critique of current policy initiatives in the United States. He rightly follows up this point by adding that such analysis shows also how extensive and costly a coherent reform plan would need to be and how long it would take to implement, an unwelcome message to policy makers.