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That shift, in turn, place an unprecedented premium on "knowledge workers", a new class of wealthy, educated, and mobile people who view themselves as free agents in a seller's market.

反过来，这种转变又给“知识工人”带来了前所未有的好处，这是一个新的阶层，由富有、受过教育、流动性强的人组成，他们认为自己是卖方市场上的自由代理人。

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My book knowledge fell by the wayside as I thought about the basics of getting around, reading emails and talking with my classmates, I was often nervous at school, worried about whether the teachers would call on me in class and whether I'd understand their questions.

我一开始思考出行、阅读电子邮件和与同学交谈时，就会把书本知识置之脑后。我在学校里时常感到紧张，担心老师会不会在课上点我，担心自己能否理解老师的问题。

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But if we had common knowledge of rationality in this class, then the optimal choice would have been 1.

但是如果大家都知道彼此是理性的,那么最优策略就是1

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And knowledge of French or anything at all about France is not required in this class at all.

这门课并不需要,法语和法国方面的知识

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This is a nation that met that responsibility by choosing, like your ancestors did, to keep alight the flame of knowledge and invest in a world-class education for your young people.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses the Irish People

University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.

WSJ: San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer Discusses His Role

This may be wishful thinking, but his essential point is a good one: namely that the boom years before the great recession put far more wealth in the hands of highly educated professionals than in earlier times, and that this class--Ivied, cosmopolitan, sophisticated in the ways of the knowledge economy--naturally gravitates toward liberal values and politics.

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