一块烙好的饼,如何公平的分配给每个人?中西方有不同的做法。西方的做法是靠规则。美国著名财经专栏作家约翰·斯蒂尔·戈登(John Steele Gordon)曾经在《美国传统》(American Heritage)杂志上发表一篇文章,通过分面包的传说回溯了西方保证公平分配规则的起源。据说,在古罗马军队中,士兵每天定量得到一块面包充当全天的口粮,而这块面包是从更大块的面包上切割下来的。一开始,切割面包与分配面包的任务是由类似班长这样的长官一人担任,于是,长官往往切割下最大的一 A piece of branded cake, how to equitable distribution to everyone? China and the West have different approaches. Western practice is by rule. John Steele Gordon, a famous American financial columnist, once published an article in American Heritage magazine that traces the origin of the Western rules guaranteeing equitable distribution through the legend of loafing. It is said that soldiers in the ancient Roman army were given a daily ration of a piece of bread as a whole-day ration, and the piece of bread was cut from a larger piece of bread. In the beginning, the task of cutting bread and distributing bread was done by a single chief such as a squad leader, so the chief often cut the largest one