I mean, really, when was the last time you found someone who wanted to discuss the theory of relativity or the law of diminishing marginal returns?

我的意思是，说真的，上一次有人愿意与你讨论相对论或边际效益递减规律是什么时候呢？

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Emphasizing on the increasing returns to scale, spillover effect and accumulation of specialized human capital, the endogenous growth theory is a breakthrough in this regard.

它所强调的规模收益递增、外溢效应、专业化人力资本积累等，是对传统经济增长理论的重大突破。

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To set rate of equity returns is a critical step for long-term investment decisions, but in a realistic irrational world, its not easy to do that using CAPM familiar in standard financial theory.

确定股权回报率是进行长期投资决策的关键步骤，但在现实非理性世界中难以直接运用传统财务理论所推荐的资本资产定价模型来确定股权回报率。

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I don't find that my analysis is profound in the final answer, I just took some estimates using my data and, again, we could-- if someone wanted to argue with us they could argue with my estimates of the expected returns of the standard deviations and the covariances, but not with this theory.

我在计算过程中并没有做太深入的分析，我只是用我的数据做了一下大概的估计,我再说一次，我们可以-,如果有人想就这个问题与我们争辩,他们可以争论我对期望收益的估计,或是争论标准差和协方差的估计值，但并不会针对理论本身。

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Although past performance is no guarantee of future returns, the Theory is an interesting one worthy of note and has a history dating back to the 1800s and has been accurate in three out of its past four predictions.

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One theory of decision making says you ought to maximize your expected returns, where an expected return is the outcome multiplied by the probability of winning it.

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But he has a theory of the economy that basically says, if I'm maximizing returns for my investors, for wealthy individuals like myself, then everybody is going to be better off.

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