It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme. It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.

  • -- Joan Robinson 琼·罗宾逊

如果我们试图把我们所生活的经济体系解释为一种理性的方案,就不可能理解它。必须把它理解为历史发展进程中的一个尴尬阶段。

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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

斯德哥尔摩成千上万市民的经济行为中微妙而复杂的竞争与合作模式对经济学家提出了一个挑战,这个挑战可能与物理学家和化学家的挑战一样复杂。

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

但问题的真相是,他们有机会参与国家的经济和政治未来,当然也有机会参与国家的安全生活。