对于所有希望不费周折便能对亚当史密斯，大卫里卡多，以及时代稍近的经济学家诸如保尔萨姆尔森的理念有所了解的话，此书乃是理想之选。

For anyone wanting a painless primer in the ideas of Adam Smith, David Ricardo or more recent economists, such as Paul Samuelson, this is the place to find it.

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In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.

在这一方面，有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当？史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。

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After all economists no longer read Adam Smith.

毕竟，经济学家已不再读亚当？史密斯。

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I hesitate to I don't hesitate to say that you will never read Adam Smith in an economics course here at Yale and it is very unlikely that you will read Freud in your psychology classes.

我犹疑，我毫不犹疑的说,你绝对不会读到亚当？史密斯,至少在耶鲁的经济学课堂上不会,而且你也不太可能,在你的心理学课堂上读到佛洛伊德。

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