Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

  • -- Kenneth Baker 肯尼斯·贝克

私有化进程缓慢。当非常大的事情发生时,比如私有化,历史学家和经济学家喜欢认为你一定有非常大的原因。事情不是这样发生的。

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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

国有经济的私有化还没有提上议程。我们不能马上做这件事;我的同事们不会同意。但是,我们必须立即把所有形式的所有制平等起来,让不同类型的所有制同国有企业竞争。

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

许多以前不为人知的原因,现在正以一种综合的力量起作用,以钝化思维的辨别能力,并使之不适合所有自愿的努力,以把它减少到近乎野蛮的麻木状态。

The classical economists were not wholly free from error, for they were only mortals, even if of a superior species.

古典经济学家并不是完全没有错误,因为他们不过是凡人,即使属于更高级的物种。

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

我不是经济学家,我们都知道经济学家的存在是为了让天气预报看起来不错。

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

如果你用一种方式看待生活,总是有理由感到惊慌的。