We economists know that there are many drawbacks to expanding government beyond its basic role of providing true public goods like defense, public safety, and justice, as well as providing citizens with incentives to counterbalance the effects of true market failures. If the private market has the flexibility of two hands, government bureaucracy has at best two thumbs.
我们经济学家知道，政府的基本职能是提供真正的公共利益，例如国防、公共安全、司法以及向公民提供激励以制衡市场机制失败的影响。超越这些职能，就会产生很多缺点。如果私有市场机制具有两只手的灵活性，那么，政府官僚最多只有两个拇指。