You put everyone together and you say, okay all of your economic fortunes are the same.

当把人们聚在一起，告诉他们，你们获得的经济财富是一致的。

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What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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Such states, of course, did not need a bureaucracy for there were no vast royal or state holdings that needed management and not much economic surplus to support a bureaucratic class.

国家无需官僚体制,因为没有庞大的皇室家族,和国家财富需要管理,也没多少经济盈余能够维持官僚阶级

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Economics deals with the transactions involving the production and distribution of wealth sociology with the transaction governing status and class anthropology with the domain of culture and so on.

经济学处理,包含财富生产与分配的交易,社会学处理,管治地位与阶级的问题,人类学专注于文化，依此类推。

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