I want to go back to the arguments for and against the redistribution of income.

我想继续回到对收入再分配问题,赞同与否的论辩。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He raised taxes certain on the top brackets a little bit.

尽管克林顿对高收入人群适当增了点税。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Revenues minus costs makes profits, and again, for those of you who are less familiar with economics, I'm hoping this is not really too hard but you can read up on it.

收入减去成本就是利润,对经济学不太了解的同学,我觉得这个很简单,你们都能听懂吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's important--that's one reason why we want policies that encourage equality of incomes-- not necessarily equality, but reasonable equality-- because the people with very low wealth have a very high marginal utility of income and people with very high wealth have very little.

这非常重要,我们需要通过政策,来引导收入公平的一个原因就是这个,不是绝对的平等,是相对的平等,因为那些低收入的人群,对收出的边际效应相当的高,而高收入人群的则小得多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, I don't know how far back it goes but it must be that in ancient times some people would say, all right you're going to be doing more work or you're contributing more to this enterprise, we'll give you a bigger share of the profits.

我不知道这能追溯到什么时候,但在古时候肯定有人说,好吧,你比别人干得多,你对公司的贡献更大,我们会把收入的大头给你

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, right?

是边际收入等于边际成本那点,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选