[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viable and useful (a delusion encouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).
(存在)一种错觉，认为宏观经济学既可行又有用(这种错觉是由其对数学的广泛应用所助长的，而这种广泛应用必然会给缺乏数学教育的政客留下深刻印象，而这实际上是职业经济学家中最接近魔术实践的东西)。