A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
经济
Economy
Happily, there is nothing in the laws of value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up; the theory of the subject is complete.
令人高兴的是，在价值规律中，没有任何东西是现在或将来的作家需要澄清的;这门学科的理论是完整的。
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
我们希望这个国家失去制造业的支柱吗?我们想成为一个什么都不想生产的国家吗?
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
我赞成帮助所有国家的繁荣，因为当我们都繁荣时，彼此之间的贸易对彼此来说变得更有价值。
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
种族歧视、南非的经济实力、对所有黑人的压迫和剥削，都是同一件事的组成部分。
We believe in having a strategic amount of cash. We are in the process of growing rapidly and we are investing hugely in new plant and infrastructure.
我们相信拥有战略性的现金。我们正处于快速增长的过程中，我们正大举投资于新的工厂和基础设施。
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
国际贷款银行需要把重点放在私人投资没有涉足的领域，比如基础设施项目、教育和扶贫。
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.
油价的持续上涨对消费者不利，对我们的经济不利，对所有其他企业也不利。它正在伤害我们，让我们失去工作。
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
与其出去吃饭，不如买些好吃的。在家做饭就体现了这种情感。在经济不景气的时候，让自己感觉良好更重要。
All industrial efficiency consists in trying to do with eight men what we have hitherto been doing with ten men. It consists in creating unemployment.
一切工业效率都在于设法用八个人做我们迄今为止用十个人做的事。它包括创造失业。
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
我们有最原始的会计工具。这是悲剧性的，因为我们的计算和国家算术没有告诉我们我们需要知道的事情。
What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.
我主持的这项研究实际上是说，我们需要对银行的现金和资本进行更严格的监管，因为信贷太容易了。事实证明这是正确的。
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.
我们需要加强和拯救今天的工人的社会保障。如果我们现在不采取行动，这个诞生于新政的体系将成为一个糟糕的协议。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
经济增长和环境保护并不矛盾。如果你着眼于长期的繁荣，它们是同一枚硬币的两面。
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里，物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
你可能会说经济史是人们学习管理风险的历史。
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
永远不要让经济因素独自决定你的职业或你如何度过大部分时间。
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
我们需要认识到，真正重要的不是购买越来越多的消费品，而是家人、朋友，以及知道我们在用生命做一些有价值的事情。帮助减少世界贫困的可怕后果应该是重新评估的一部分。
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
经济不是一个抽象概念。经济是由人组成的，只有当人们感到安全并享有合理的自由时，经济才会增长。