1.对凯恩斯及其理论的评价
Keynes, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man! 凯恩斯在通论里详尽铺陈了一个非常美妙的假说,这个假说确实改变了经济学的形态。但结果是,这个假说是错误的。这并不意味着凯恩斯就不是一个伟大的人了。
2、个人认为这句话意在说分工
Look at this lead pencil, there is not a single person in the world who can make this pencil. 看看这支铅笔,世界上没有一个人可以制造这样一支铅笔。
3、对国家的界定,也是一种理想状态吧
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. 对于自由人来说,国家就是组成它的个人的集合,而不是什么高高在上的东西。
4、最好的经济学家往往就是社会学家啊
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. 因为我们生活在一个大体上自由的社会,我们倾向于忘记全球拥有政治自由的区域和时间是有多么的有限。人类的典型状态是暴政、奴役和痛苦。
5、On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself. In the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. 一方面,经济安排的自由本身就是被广泛理解的自由的组成部分,所以经济自由就是目的本身。另一方面,经济自由也是达到政治自由所不可或缺的途径。