Because sometimes the best way to understand a later argument is to see it as responding to the weaknesses of earlier arguments.

因为有些时候,理解后期观点最好的办法,是看它如何回应早期观点的缺陷与不完善

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What they argued in this paper was that, if we had perfect risk management, then there would be perfect correlation of consumption across countries because if we get rid of the idiosyncratic risks, then all that's left is planet-wide risks.

他们在论文中的观点是，如果我们有完善的风险管理,那在不同国家之间的消费呈完全相关,因为如果我们消除了特有风险，那只剩下全球范围内的市场风险。

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So, it's very important to see how different from that the Greek idea was and what an enormous responsibility the polis was supposed to have, and of course with that, there had to be an enormous amount of support for the state by the citizens.

因此,了解希腊观点的与众不同,以及城邦应当拥有完善的政府职能,是非常重要的,当然,基于此,一个优秀的政府离不开,那些支持他们的公民

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