One is The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith.
在我出差的时候,我一般会随身携带两本书,一本是亚当斯密的道德情操论,另一本是沉思录。
Adam Smith said that prosperity depends on the rule of law, peace and low taxes.
亚当·斯密说繁荣取决于法制的规则,和平以及低水平的税收。
After all economists no longer read Adam Smith.
毕竟,经济学家已不再读亚当·史密斯。
If the answer to the previous question is yes, I can then reasonably infer to a conclusion that all the theory of "invisible hand" by Adam Smith must be wrong.
如果这一问题的答案是肯定的,那我可以合理地推断出所有有关亚当·斯密“看不见的手”的理论都是错误的。
Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.
亚当·史密斯形容英国是一个全民皆商的国家,对能够对中产阶级寄予怎样的希望有着清楚的认识。
So, apart from adapting first Karl Marx and now Adam Smith, what have they been writing?
那么,除了先是改编马克思,现在又是亚当·斯密,他们都在写些什么?
So what did Adam Smith mean by rational and self-interested behavior?
因此,亚当·斯密什么意思理性和自我利益的行为呢?
I hesitate to I don't hesitate to say that you will never read Adam Smith in an economics course here at Yale and it is very unlikely that you will read Freud in your psychology classes.
我犹疑,我毫不犹疑的说,你绝对不会读到亚当·史密斯,至少在耶鲁的经济学课堂上不会,而且你也不太可能,在你的心理学课堂上读到佛洛伊德。
Poverty is not relative, and it cannot be objectively determined by an expert. Adam Smith understood that very well.
亚当·斯密早就告诉过我们,贫困并不是相对的,也不能由某个专家做出客观的评断。
One is the Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith. The other is the Meditations [of Marcus Aurelius]. There are too many memoirs selling nowadays. I don't like reading those books.
一本是亚当·史密斯的《道德精神理论》,一本是马可·奥利斯·伍斯的《沉思录》,现在市面上有太多回忆录了,我不喜欢读这些书。
Early on, Adam Smith recommended the “substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money”.
在早期亚当斯密推荐使用这种“纸质的货币代替金银货币”。
Adam Smith put his finger on the problem back in 1776.
1776年,亚当·斯密就准确地指出了这个问题。
In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.
在这一方面,有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当?史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。
I come from Kirkcaldy in Fife where Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'.
我来自于范福的可可卡第,那是写《国富论》的亚当·斯密出生的地方。
Tax Freedom Day is just one of the Adam Smith Institute's many initiatives - but it has become a national institution, and gives people a clear picture of how the tax burden is rising.
无税日是协会中很多政策的一个-但是他现在成为一个全国性的协会,它给人们清晰的展示了税务的负担是正在上升的。
It begins to matter whether a person is poor relative to his countrymen; whether he can appear in public without shame, as Adam Smith put it.
如以个人相对于其同村的人是否贫穷,或者象亚当·斯密的标准是否能不羞愧地在公共场合露面对贫困的标准也有影响。
Adam Smith, who is often falsely viewed as a proponent of selfishness and hardheadedness, was quite explicit about the pull this has.
经济学创立者亚当·斯密经常被人误认为,是一个提倡自私和无情的人,但他却非常明白移情作用。
All new Adam Smith Institute reports are now available free online, which has brought a hundredfold increase in the number of people reading them.
所有的协会的新文章在网络上可以任意使用,这带来了数百倍的的人来读这些文章。
For anyone wanting a painless primer in the ideas of Adam Smith, David Ricardo or more recent economists, such as Paul Samuelson, this is the place to find it.
对于所有希望不费周折便能对亚当史密斯,大卫里卡多,以及时代稍近的经济学家诸如保尔萨姆尔森的理念有所了解的话,此书乃是理想之选。
Since its inception, the Adam Smith Institute has made a point of encouraging and engaging with young people who are interested in policy issues.
自从建立初期,协会就与那些对政策观点感兴趣的年轻人进行接触并鼓励他们。
Even Adam Smith might have found fault with the unhindered working of a smokers' market.
即使亚当·斯密也会认为对烟民不加限制是不对的。
Adam Smith had a similar aberration.
亚当·斯密也犯了同样的错误。
Reason convinced him in particular that Adam Smith was right, that through its invisible hand the market benefited profit-seeking individuals (of whom he was one) and society alike.
这个理由能够说服他,尤其是因为他确信,亚当·斯密是对的。通过那只“看不见的手”,市场可以让追求利润的个人(他就是其中之一)和社会受益。
As Adam Smith noted, division of Labour leads to greater productivity because it allows people to specialise and become very good at what they do.
正如亚当·斯密指出的那样,分工通过提高专业劳动者的熟练度来提高生产力。
Some were friends of Enlightenment philosophers such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and other figures.
有些人交游广泛,和启蒙运动的哲学家戴维德·休谟、亚当·史密斯、亚当·弗格森和其他大人物相交匪浅。
When you think about it, Durbin and Moynihan are actually referring to the principles established more than three centuries ago by Adam Smith in his pioneering work "The Wealth of Nations.
杜宾和莫伊尼汉其实提到了在三个多世纪前亚当斯密在其先驱作品《国富论》中的原则。
I think it is central to our civilisation that people do that. Adam Smith uses the example of mathematicians. Mathematicians seem to be, in his observation, totally unconcerned with popular praise.
然后将其演进成渴望值得被夸奖,这代表了成熟.我以为人们这种行为对社会文明很重要.亚当斯密还举了一个数学家的例子. 根据他的观察,数学家似乎根本不关心一般的夸奖;
But Adam Smith really had the basic insight.
但亚当·斯密的确持有最基本的观点。
While Voltaire, Condorcet and Descartes used reason to confront superstition and feudalism, thinkers across the Channel – Brooks cites Burke, Hume and Adam Smith – thought it unwise to trust reason.
相比伏尔泰、孔多塞和笛卡尔这些利用理性去直面迷信和封建主义的法国启蒙思想者们,海峡对面的思想家,如布鲁克斯在书中所提及的伯克、休谟以及亚当·斯密,则认为信任理性是不明智的行为。
Adam Smith basically said people are rational, selfish even.
亚当·斯密说,人们基本上是理性的,甚至是自私。
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