Greg Mankiw thought a bunch of reporters were coming to talk to him about the state of the economy and the analysis made by the Council of Economic Advisers in its “2004 Economic Report of the President.” But the last thing the reporters wanted to do was to convey a thumbnail summary of Mankiw’s analysis of outsourcing.
格里高利·曼昆以为这帮记者是来与他探讨目前的经济状况，探讨总统委员会的经济顾问在“2004年总统经济报告”中所做的分析。但实际上，记者们最不愿做的就是如实地在报纸上刊登曼昆针对外包所做的豆腐块大小的总结。在他们看来，这根本就不是他们的工作。