In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.

换言之，福柯在从事很有趣的事业，或许我们至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我们是否也能对此有兴趣。

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Actually, and this sounds very counter-intuitive, you can probably measure national economic progress more by the jobs destroyed, than by the jobs created.

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Since the price of expensive homes, particularly in once-fizzy markets such as California, is falling fastest, the Case-Shiller measure probably paints the more accurate picture.

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This particular measure will probably fail, but there will be others.

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