亚当·斯密也犯了同样的错误。
但亚当·斯密的确持有最基本的观点。
“亚当·斯密问题”有不同的逻辑层面。
1776年，亚当·斯密就准确地指出了这个问题。
即使亚当·斯密也会认为对烟民不加限制是不对的。
Even Adam Smith might have found fault with the unhindered working of a smokers' market.
亚当·斯密说，人们基本上是理性的，甚至是自私。
Adam Smith basically said people are rational, selfish even.
因此，亚当·斯密什么意思理性和自我利益的行为呢？
So what did Adam Smith mean by rational and self-interested behavior?
有时他对于没能生在亚当·斯密的时代而感到遗憾不已。
英国已不再是小店主之国了（译注：出自亚当·斯密之语）。
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。
Adam Smith said that prosperity depends on the rule of law, peace and low taxes.
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, apart from adapting first Karl Marx and now Adam Smith, what have they been writing?
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。
I come from Kirkcaldy in Fife where Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'.
这些模型的行为的批评者认为，他们采取亚当·斯密的观点发挥到了极致。
Behavioral critics of these models believe they take Adam Smith's insights to an extreme.
他的一位好友提醒道，须有生花妙笔才能栩栩如生重现亚当·斯密的人生。
It would take a skilful pencil to bring Smith to life, warned one of his friends.
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。
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.
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。
Poverty is not relative, and it cannot be objectively determined by an expert. Adam Smith understood that very well.
英国是自由贸易思想的发源地，亚当·斯密的理论影响了200多年来的国际贸易实践。
Britain is the birthplace of the idea of free trade. Adam Smith's theories have influenced international trade over the past 200 odd years.
原因之一从亚当·斯密著名的针厂故事中可见一斑，他发现针厂如此高效的原因是专业化分工。
One reason is found in Adam Smith's famous story of the pin factory. Smith observed that the pin factory was so productive because it allowed workers to specialize.
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。
Adam Smith, who is often falsely viewed as a proponent of selfishness and hardheadedness, was quite explicit about the pull this has.
康德的定言令式程序，亚当·斯密的公正旁观者，和卢梭的公意等是道德观点中一些主要的代表者。
Kant's categorical imperative procedure, Adam Smith's impartial spectator, and Rousseau's general will are primary examples of representations of a moral point of view.
在亚当·斯密的经典论著《国富论》之中，大量的篇幅论及的根本不是财富问题，而是收入问题。
MUCH of Adam Smith's classic treatise on the "wealth of Nations" is not really about wealth at all, but about income.
正如亚当·斯密的工厂经理将大头针的产线分成了十八道工序，如今的企业则将脑力工作分越来越细。
Just as Adam Smith's factory managers broke the production of pins into 18 components, so companies are increasingly breaking the production of brain-work into ever tinier slices.
谷歌就是一个很好的例子，其“善行”不是来自公司的利他主义，而更多的源自亚当·斯密的看不见的手。
Google is a good example of this. Its "goodness" stems less from all that guff about corporate altruism than from Adam Smith's invisible hand.
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。
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.
亚当·斯密认为仅仅是欣赏一块制作精良的手表的工艺就拥有了快乐，即使它的特别准确并没有什么实际好处。
Adam Smith thought there was pleasure to be had simply in admiring the craftsmanship of a well-made watch, even if its extra accuracy was of little practical benefit.
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。
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.
由此，他写成了那篇关于游戏规则理论的论文——竞争的数学，勇敢地对现代经济学之父亚当·斯密的学说提出了挑战。
His resulting paper on game theory - the mathematics of competition - boldly contradicts the doctrines of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics.
您首先推荐的是亚当·斯密的《道德情操论》？附带的说一下，这本书也是今年年初我们采访卡尔罗孚时他推荐的五大著作之一。
You've started off with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (which, incidentally, was also one of Karl Rove's top five, when he did an interview with us earlier this year).
您首先推荐的是亚当·斯密的《道德情操论》？附带的说一下，这本书也是今年年初我们采访卡尔罗孚时他推荐的五大著作之一。
You've started off with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (which, incidentally, was also one of Karl Rove's top five, when he did an interview with us earlier this year).
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