If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

如果有人真的想要我公司的业务,他为什么不能尽他所能——包括付钱给我——来得到那项业务呢?因为贿赂鼓励人们根据错误的标准做出决定,这意味着在商业世界中,贿赂扭曲了资源的有效配置。

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I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

我不反对设计一个新的养恤金制度,其中一个部分是以集体规定为基础的,但也鼓励人们采取额外的个人计划。

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

当涉及到社会后果时,他们让不同的人以不同的方式行事,甚至很难有一个正确的成功标准。所以,这是一项艰巨的任务。

I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

我认为生活在电影所基于的世界里的人最终会不喜欢它们。除非他们来自不同的时代。