Yes, we Americans have the right to be stupid if we want to be. We can carry on pretending that our economic problems can be solved with the help of yet more fiscal stimulus or quantitative easing. Or we can face up to the institutional impediments to growth I have described here.
是的,只要我们愿意,我们美国人有权利装傻。我们可以继续假装,借助于更多的财政刺激或量化宽松,我们的经济问题能够得以解决。或者,我们也可以坦然面对我在文中描述的这种阻碍经济增长的机构问题。
Not many economists talk about them, it's true. But that's because not many economists run businesses.
的确,讨论这个问题的经济学家并不多。但那是因为经商的经济学家微乎其微。
Adapted from Mr. Ferguson's new book, 'The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, ' to be published by Penguin Press on Thursday.
(本文选自Niall Ferguson的新书《西方文明的四个黑盒子》(The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die)。该书已由企鹅出版社(Penguin Press)出版。
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