当我们参与公共选择时,每个人的偏好刻画了每个人关于各种可能的公共生活的价值判断。最近发生的一系列事件验证了黑格尔的名言:重要的历史事件第一次出现时是悲剧,第二次出现时是闹剧。目前还在演的这场戏剧,从宏观调控开始,先是悲剧性的,后由“郎泡沫”转变为闹剧性的,让我觉得这个社会正滑入许多可能世界当中最糟糕的那种可能世界。公共选择可以想像为这样一个过程:首先,在可选方案的集合上,每一公民根据他的偏好,对任何两可选方案的满意程度 As we engage in public choice, each person’s preferences portray each person’s value judgment about every possible public life. A series of recent events have validated Hegel’s famous remark: Important historical events are tragedies when they first appear, and farce when they appear for the second time. The drama that is still going on at the moment, starting from the macro-control, first tragic, and then from “Lang bubble” to dramatic, reminds me that this society is sliding into the worst possible one among many possible worlds . Public choice can be imagined as such a process: first, on the set of alternatives, each citizen, on the basis of his preference, the degree of satisfaction with any two alternatives