自由主义跟自由派是不一样的。自由派里都是克鲁格曼这种干预鼓吹者..自由主义那就是另一个概念了


国内出过一本克鲁格曼的书叫《一个自由主义者的良知》，看完之后挺奇怪里面为什么是政府干预的内容，查了下这个自由主义应该译为自由派。

第一问，我的观点是，左翼认为自己 is losing powet to 右翼，bush 等都属于右翼，是该句前面一句的阐述；第三段开头，承接第二段结尾，虽然右翼（以Bush为代表）在获得越来越多的影响力，但是这并不能使他们的情况得到更多的改善，理由是下面紧接的一句，因为给了对手（即左翼）太多paranoia的机会。

第二问，布什是右翼的话就问题解决了。

第三问，经济学上关于左右之分和政治上是不一样的，下面的文字是曼昆在他博客上的一篇短文，楼主可以参考一下：
In today's lecture, I have discussed a number of reasons that right-leaning and left-leaning economists differ in their policy views, even though they share an intellectual framework for analysis. Here is a summary.
•        The right sees large deadweight losses associated with taxation and, therefore, is worried about the growth of government as a share in the economy. The left sees smaller elasticities of supply and demand and, therefore, is less worried about the distortionary effect of taxes.
•        The right sees externalities as an occasional market failure that calls for government intervention, but sees this as relatively rare exception to the general rule that markets lead to efficient allocations. The left sees externalities as more pervasive.
•        The right sees competition as a pervasive feature of the economy and market power as typically limited both in magnitude and duration. The left sees large corporations with substantial degrees of monopoly power that need to be checked by active antitrust policy.
•        The right sees people as largely rational, doing the best the can given the constraints they face. The left sees people making systematic errors and believe that it is the government role’s to protect people from their own mistakes.
•        The right sees government as a terribly inefficient mechanism for allocating resources, subject to special-interest politics at best and rampant corruption at worst. The left sees government as the main institution that can counterbalance the effects of the all-too-powerful marketplace.
•        There is one last issue that divides the right and the left—perhaps the most important one. That concerns the issue of income distribution. Is the market-based distribution of income fair or unfair, and if unfair, what should the government do about it? That is such a big topic that I will devote the entire next lecture to it.

[quote]GeorgiaLv 发表于 2009-6-18 21:11
第一问，我的观点是，左翼认为自己 is losing powet to 右翼，bush 等都属于右翼，是该句前面一句的阐述；第三段开头，承接第二段结尾，虽然右翼（以Bush为代表）在获得越来越多的影响力，但是这并不能使他们的情况得到更多的改善，理由是下面紧接的一句，因为给了对手（即左翼）太多paranoia的机会。

第二问，布什是右翼的话就问题解决了。

谢谢，那第二段的最后一句该怎么理解？it cannot believe that  .. 这里的 it 是指什么？是指代上文的 the left 吗？

It应当为形式主语，具体指代后面那个that从句，这句话翻译起来的话我觉得可以这么说，左翼is losing powet to 右翼这个现状让人难以置信，我翻译的不好，不过大概就这意思吧，嘿嘿~