What does the great credit crunch do to the case for competitive capitalism? Many revisionist left-of-centre politicians not only have risked their careers to make the case for market forces, but have also had to jettison their deepest lifetime convictions. Are they now to stand on their heads and say they have been wrong all along? And if they did so, where would they turn? Even if in the end we suffer no more than an average post-second- world-war recession it will still look like a narrow escape owing to the readiness of leaders such as Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, not merely to jettison free-market principles but to take risks with prudence to bail out US corporate bodies. There will be no “glad confident morning” for free-market principles for a long time to come.
正是出于上述理由，我很喜欢乔治•库珀(George Cooper)写的《金融危机的起源》（Origin of Financial Crises，由Harriman House出版）。本书虽然简短，但写得相当不错。库珀引用保罗•萨缪尔森(Paul Samuelson)的理论，试图以基本manbetx20客户端下载 理论解释显然很深奥的金融问题。萨缪尔森撰写的《manbetx20客户端下载 学》(Economics: An Introductory Analysis)可能是20世纪最畅销manbetx20客户端下载 学教科书。萨缪尔森简要概述了竞争性的市场机制：如果一种商品（比如鞋）订单大量增加，那么价格就会上涨，生产者会生产出更多的鞋；如果茶叶供过于求，价格就会下降，人们会饮用更多的茶，而生产者将减少供应。“于是将重新实现供需均衡。”