The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  • -- George Stigler 斯蒂格勒

斯德哥尔摩成千上万市民的经济行为中微妙而复杂的竞争与合作模式对经济学家提出了一个挑战,这个挑战可能与物理学家和化学家的挑战一样复杂。

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

每种文化都用遮羞布覆盖其社会禁忌,这种遮羞布对其道德有双重描述。它揭示了某些未被承认的行为的存在,并指出了这种行为的形式。

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

这个预算反映了一个选择——不是一个简单的选择,而是正确的选择。当你想一下,唯一的选择。选择采取负责任、审慎的方式实现财政稳定、经济增长和机会。

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

如果没有对公民生命的威胁,我们的策略将是不干预或阻碍抗议成员自由表达他们的意愿。

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

行为是一种选择。感情有时是我们无法控制的。行为与选择有关。

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

由于人们在燃料上的支出增加,而在消费品和旅游上的支出减少,当地经济正在遭受冲击。

My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.

同胞们,我们的城市是强大的。