A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济学家
Economist
For economist the real world is often a special case.
对经济学家来说，现实世界往往是一个特例。
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
经济学家的猜测可能和其他人一样好。
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
教一只鹦鹉“供给和需求”这两个术语，你就有了一位经济学家。
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
我认为你必须提防任何一个在高中说他想成为一名经济学家的人。
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
经济学家是专家，他明天就会知道为什么他昨天预测的事情今天没有发生。
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.
我认为，无论你是右派还是左派，无论是经济学家还是政策制定者，我所认识的每一位严肃的分析师都同意，在某个时候，你必须处理福利问题。
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
我可能只是一个炸鱼薯条店的女店员，但是这些经济学家中的一些人需要跳出课本，到现实世界去找份工作。我甚至不会让他们中的一个来处理我的杂货采购。
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
一个纯粹的集体体系的问题不仅在于它需要经济增长和正确的人口趋势，还在于它阻止人们以负责任的方式思考自己的未来。
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
一位瑞典物理学家除非出国，否则不能与五十个人讨论他的工作。一位瑞典经济学家可以从他成千上万的同胞那里得到用本国语言表述的意见和指示。
If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.
如果你听到一位专家在谈论互联网，并说它会做这个或会做那个，你应该用同样的怀疑态度对待它，就像你对待经济学家对经济的评论或天气预报员对天气的评论一样。