But maybe this is an opportunity to reiterate a point I try to make now and then: economics is not a morality play.

也许正好借此机会重申一下我时常想要说的一个观点：经济学不是唱德育戏。

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Keynes's genius - a very English one - was to insist we should approach an economic system not as a morality play but as a technical challenge.

凯恩斯的天才——一种非常英式的天才——在于强调，我们不能把经济体系当成一出道德剧来对待，而是应该把它当成一种技术挑战。

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Only those who believe the economy is a morality play, in which those they deem wicked should suffer punishment, would enjoy that painful result.

只有那些相信经济是一幕道德剧、而他们视为邪恶的人应该受到惩罚的人，才会喜欢那种痛苦的结果。

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And so, it's a very interesting play about the morality of developing nuclear weapons.

这是一部非常有意思的电影,讲的是不断发展的核武器的道德问题。

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An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.

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Not until late 1985, when Marcos suddenly called a "snap" presidential election in an attempt to capitalize on opposition disarray, did Cory finally acknowledge that she alone could unite the anti-Marcos forces and transform the race into a political morality play.

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In a peculiarly American way, the cabin-fee issue has therefore turned into a sort of morality play in which these people argue that the government should keep their rents low in order to prevent something even worse: the prospect that public lands might become solely a province of the rich.

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