目前,写进教科书里的经济学和在课堂上讲授的经济学与商业管理并没有多少关联,跟企业家精神的联系就更少。经济学与日常商业活动已经过度脱节,令人遗憾。而过去的情形并非如此。当现代经济学诞生时,亚当·斯密把它设想成是对“国民财富的性质和原因”的研究。尽管亚当·斯密认为商人们有贪婪、短视等缺点,毫不掩饰对他们的轻视,他那本影响深远的《国富论》却被商人们广泛传阅。这本书也激起并指导了政治家们对贸易和其它经济政策的争论。那个时代的学术圈子很小,经 At the moment, there is little correlation between economics written in textbooks and the economics taught in class, and business management, with less connection to entrepreneurship. It is regrettable that economics has been out of step with the daily business activities. This is not the case in the past. When modern economics was born, Adam Smith conceived it as a study of “the nature and causes of national wealth.” Although Adam Smith believes that merchants have such shortcomings as greed and short-sightedness, he does not hide their contempt for them. His far-reaching “Wealth of Nations” has been widely circulated by businessmen. This book also arouses and guides politicians’ debates over trade and other economic policies. The academic circle of that era was small, after