All of these banks are really in control of short-term interest rates and these interest rates are used to try to manage and stabilize the economy.

所有国家的中央银行都可以,控制短期利率,通过控制短期率达到,管理和稳定经济的作用

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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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