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什么是看不见的手?

The "Invisible Hand" in the Modern Era

现代的“看不见的手”

Today, there is only one country in the world that has taken the concept of the "invisible hand" and run with it, and that's the United States.

今天，世界上只有一个国家接受并采用了“看不见的手”的概念，那就是美国。

As Mitt Romney said during his 2017 campaign, "the invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government," and that is one of the basic tenets of the Republican party.

正如米特·罗姆尼在2017年竞选时所说，“市场这只看不见的手总是比政府这只沉重的手走得更快、更好”，这是共和党的基本原则之一。

For the most extreme conservatives (and some libertarians), any form of regulation is unnatural, since any inequalities in the market can be counted on to sort themselves out, sooner or later. (England, meanwhile, even though it has separated from the European Union, still maintains fairly high levels of regulation.)

对于最极端的保守主义者（以及一些自由主义者）来说，任何形式的监管都是不自然的，因为市场中的任何不平等现象迟早都可以指望自己解决。（与此同时，尽管英国已脱离欧盟，但仍保持着相当高的监管水平。）

But does the "invisible hand" really work in a modern economy? For a telling example, you need look no further than the health-care system. There are many healthy young people in the U.S. who, acting out of sheer self-interest, choose not to purchase health insurance—thus saving themselves hundreds, and possibly thousands, of dollars per month. This results in a higher standard of living for them, but also higher premiums for comparably healthy people who choose to protect themselves with health insurance, and extremely high (and often unaffordable) premiums for elderly and unwell people for whom insurance is literally a matter of life and death.