Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

  • -- George Stigler 斯蒂格勒

甚至在我来到芝加哥之前,我就对价格分散性的存在产生了兴趣,经济学理论认为,在这种情况下会产生单一的价格。

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The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

停止的想法对我来说并不是没有意义的。我认为,至少在理论上,你可能会说,‘嗯,我基本上已经做了我想做的事情。“但你怎么能阻止几年以后某个想法的萌芽在你身上生根发芽,而你又不得不重新来过呢?”

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

另一方面,说联邦政策的变化使我们的学费上涨得更快是不公平的。每一个可以想象到的经济论据都会表明,我们应该以比现在更快的速度提高学费。

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

我们都知道这一点。我们都知道,要想把自己从这场经济危机造成的困境中解救出来,需要的时间比我们任何人想要的都要长。

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

华尔街的一种理论正在削弱新闻业,这种理论认为,利润可以通过最小化产品实现最大化。

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

我很乐意这么做,但我患有社交恐惧症。我无法挤在人群中。

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

那些家伙告诉我不要辞掉白天的工作。