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Volume 33, 2004 - Issue 2
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The economic spin 经济旋转

Pages 1-17 | Published online: 23 Dec 2011
第 1-17 页 |网络出版日期: 2011-12-23
 

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In business today “spinning” typically has a negative connotation. But it's more basic meaning, as a counter-twisting action producing multipurpose threads, actually better describes economic acts and relations. It especially illustrates Adam Smith's basic insight into the economic act as blending the mutual self-interests of buyers and sellers, of workers and employers, of borrowers and lenders. This meaning is obviously evident in private economic actions but it is also implicit in public undertakings. Indeed, just a few “look-sees” into the histories of national economies demonstrate the conclusion that where economic “weaving and spinning” interests are most effective, their economies evolve most productively and where not, they don’t.
在当今的商业中,“旋转”通常具有负面含义。但它更基本的含义是,作为一种产生多用途线程的反扭曲动作,实际上更好地描述了经济行为和关系。它特别说明了亚当·斯密对经济行为的基本见解,即融合了买方和卖方、工人和雇主、借款人和贷款人的共同利益。这种含义在私人经济行为中是显而易见的,但在公共事业中也隐含着。事实上,只要对国民经济历史进行一些“观察”,就可以得出这样的结论:在经济“织布和纺纱”利益最有效的地方,他们的经济发展得最有成效,而在经济“织布和纺纱”最有效的地方,它们就没有。

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