Does "have authored" mean "have been the major culprit for"?

[NewHopeR]

Context:

Senior government officials privately say they are battling to sell the Chinese public on the idea of using China's vast foreign-exchange resources to help bail out European countries, which are widely perceived to have authored their own economic crisis with profligate spending.

[NewHopeR]

Context:

Senior government officials privately say they are battling to sell the Chinese public on the idea of using China's vast foreign-exchange resources to help bail out European countries, which are widely perceived to have authored their own economic crisis with profligate spending.

[JMurray]

"authored" in the sense of: created, produced, caused.

"sell the Chinese public on the idea" means to convince the Chinese public to accept the idea.

not a teacher

[NewHopeR]

"authored" in the sense of: created, produced, caused.

"sell the Chinese public on the idea" means to convince the Chinese public to accept the idea.

not a teacher

Cool.
Thanks