它使经济学家分析最佳削减在何处时产生的直觉得以形式化，也是理论学家在思维远足后转向的新开始。

It formalises economists' gut instincts about where the best analytical cuts lie. It is the starting point to which the theorist returns after every ingenious excursion.

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If you doubt the importance of the study of political ideas for politics consider the works of a famous economist John Maynard Keynes : everyone's heard of him. Keynes wrote in 1935.

如果你怀疑政治思维研究的重要性,试着研读,著名经济学家的著作，凯因斯,每个人都认识吧，凯因斯在1935年写道。

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