英国财政部长戈敦·布朗曾表示，英国必须放弃过去一个世纪中在左、右翼之间关于企业和公正的没有结论的争论———前者认为应该以放弃效率为代价换得社会公正，而后者则相反，认为效率是先于社会公正的。《金融时报》对此的评论认为，“什么样的政府会希望降低企业家的资本利 Gordon Brown, the UK Treasury secretary, has said Britain must abandon the debatable debate over business and equity between the left and the right over the past century - the former believing it should be social justice at the expense of giving up efficiency On the contrary, efficiency is considered prior to social justice. The Financial Times commented that "what kind of government will want to reduce the capitalist profit of entrepreneurs