Adam Smith had a similar aberration.

亚当·斯密也犯了同样的错误。

Perhaps quoting Adam Smith is risky.

可能引证亚当·史密斯是危险的。

But Adam Smith really had the basic insight.

但亚当·斯密的确持有最基本的观点。

Adam Smith is a famous shoemaker in town.

亚当·史密斯是镇上有名的鞋匠。

After all economists no longer read Adam Smith.

毕竟，经济学家已不再读亚当·史密斯。

How then would Adam Smith fix the present mess?

那么亚当·斯密会如何解决当前的危机？

Adam Smith put his finger on the problem back in 1776.

1776年，亚当·斯密就准确地指出了这个问题。

One is The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith.

在我出差的时候，我一般会随身携带两本书，一本是亚当斯密的道德情操论，另一本是沉思录。

The Adam Smith Problem has different levels of logics.

“亚当·斯密问题”有不同的逻辑层面。

Adam Smith basically said people are rational, selfish even.

亚当·斯密说，人们基本上是理性的，甚至是自私。

Adam Smith needs revision. - What are you talking about?

亚当·史密斯需要修改。-你在胡说什么？

So what did Adam Smith mean by rational and self-interested behavior?

因此，亚当·斯密什么意思理性和自我利益的行为呢？

I come from Kirkcaldy in Fife where Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'.

我来自于范福的可可卡第，那是写《国富论》的亚当·斯密出生的地方。

Adam Smith said that prosperity depends on the rule of law, peace and low taxes.

亚当·斯密说繁荣取决于法制的规则，和平以及低水平的税收。

So, apart from adapting first Karl Marx and now Adam Smith, what have they been writing?

那么，除了先是改编马克思，现在又是亚当·斯密，他们都在写些什么？

Even Adam Smith might have found fault with the unhindered working of a smokers' market.

即使亚当·斯密也会认为对烟民不加限制是不对的。

Early on, Adam Smith recommended the “substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money”.

在早期亚当斯密推荐使用这种“纸质的货币代替金银货币”。

Adam Smith did not assert that this was invariably true, and perhaps neither did any of his followers.

亚当·史密没有宣称这是一成不变的真理，甚至他的追随者也没有。

Poverty is not relative, and it cannot be objectively determined by an expert. Adam Smith understood that very well.

亚当·斯密早就告诉过我们，贫困并不是相对的，也不能由某个专家做出客观的评断。

Some were friends of Enlightenment philosophers such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and other figures.

有些人交游广泛，和启蒙运动的哲学家戴维德·休谟、亚当·史密斯、亚当·弗格森和其他大人物相交匪浅。

As Adam Smith would no doubt have observed, just because the state can pry into electronic cash does not mean it should.

毫无疑问，亚当。斯密已经看到，尽管国家能够干预电子货币，并不意味着它就应该这样做。

Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.

亚当·史密斯形容英国是一个全民皆商的国家，对能够对中产阶级寄予怎样的希望有着清楚的认识。

Adam Smith, who is often falsely viewed as a proponent of selfishness and hardheadedness, was quite explicit about the pull this has.

经济学创立者亚当·斯密经常被人误认为，是一个提倡自私和无情的人，但他却非常明白移情作用。

It begins to matter whether a person is poor relative to his countrymen; whether he can appear in public without shame, as Adam Smith put it.

如以个人相对于其同村的人是否贫穷，或者象亚当·斯密的标准是否能不羞愧地在公共场合露面对贫困的标准也有影响。

In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.

在这一方面，有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当？史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。

As Adam Smith noted, division of Labour leads to greater productivity because it allows people to specialise and become very good at what they do.

正如亚当·斯密指出的那样，分工通过提高专业劳动者的熟练度来提高生产力。

Since its inception, the Adam Smith Institute has made a point of encouraging and engaging with young people who are interested in policy issues.

自从建立初期，协会就与那些对政策观点感兴趣的年轻人进行接触并鼓励他们。