The title of Tyler Cowen’s paean of praise for big business might strike even a pro-business reader as quixotic. Loving an abstraction is hard enough. But this particular abstraction inspires a remarkable lack of trust. According to a 2016 Gallup poll quoted by the author, an economist at George Mason University, just 6 per cent of Americans trust big business “a great deal”. Congress alone, out of a list of other US institutions, scores less.
就连一名亲企业的读者,也可能觉得泰勒•考恩(Tyler Cowen)赞扬大企业的书名不切实际。喜爱一个抽象实体已经够难了。更何况这些抽象实体激发引人注目的信任缺失。根据身为乔治梅森大学(George Mason University)manbetx20客户端下载 学家的作者援引的2016年盖洛普(Gallup)民调结果,只有6%的美国人“非常信任”大企业。在一份美国其他机构的名单中,只有国会得分更低。