这不是纸上谈兵。这一切正在发生。

This is not theory. It is happening.

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在跟诺贝尔基金会官员的会晤中，萨金特是这样描述自己和共同获奖者西姆斯的：“我们只不过是纸上谈兵型的人物，我们靠观察数字来努力搞清楚正在发生的问题。”

" In an interview with the Nobel Foundation, Sargent described himself and his co-winner thus: "We're just bookish types that look at numbers and try to figure out what's going on.

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