我们的朋友、2006年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者费尔普斯教授最近出版了一本力作Mass Flourishing,中文翻译成《大繁荣》。Mass是双关语,有“大众的”和“巨大的”两种意思,如果翻译得啰嗦一些,其意思应该是大众创造的大繁荣。《大繁荣》是费尔普斯教授大智慧的结晶。在这本书中我们读到了他超越经济学的思考,读到了他的历史厚重感、哲学思辨性、社会责任心和对人类社会发展的深刻分析。 Our friend, Professor Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently published a masterpiece, Mass Flourishing, which is translated into Chinese as “Great Prosperity.” Mass is a pun with two meanings of “popular” and “huge”, and if the translation is much more verbose, its meaning should be the great prosperity created by the public. “Prosperity” is Professor Phelps's great wisdom. In this book, we read about his thinking beyond economics and read his history of heavy feeling, philosophical thinking, social responsibility and a profound analysis of the development of human society.