放在我们面前的这本《制高点——重建现代世界的政府与市场之争》,是因写作《奖赏:部追逐石油、金钱和权力的史诗》一书获得普利策纪实文学奖的丹尼尔·耶金和国际咨询业的一位重要咨询顾问约瑟夫·斯坦尼斯罗的新作。它的主题是,政府和市场之间的适宜边界,或者用本书作者的语言:经济生活的“制高点”是否应当由政府去占领。 我热忱地向我国读者推荐这部著作。这样做的首要理由在于这一主题的极端重要性,不对它有一个清晰的认识,就几乎无法把握本世纪社会经济制度变迁的基本脉络。 在市场经济的初期阶段,作为时代旗帜的经济学家亚当·斯密在1776年出版了古典经济学的经典之《国富论》。在这本书中,斯密着力宣 The “high ground of competition for government and markets that rebuild the modern world” before us is Daniel Daniel, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Documentary Literature for his book Reward: The Epic of Oil, Money, and Power Yejin and new work by Josef Stanislaw, an important consultant to the international consulting industry. Its theme is the appropriate boundary between government and market or the language of the author of the book: Should the “commanding height” of economic life be occupied by the government? I warmly recommend this book to our readers. The primary reason for this is that the theme is of extremely great importance. Without a clear understanding of it, it is almost impossible to grasp the basic context of the changes in the social and economic system of this century. In the early stages of the market economy, Adam Smith, the era’s flagship economist, published the classic “Wealth of Nations” theory of classical economics in 1776. In this book, Smith worked hard to announce