My principles would start from the observation that market economies and free and democratic societies are built atop a very old foundation of human sociability, communication, and interdependence. That foundation had a hard enough time functioning when human societies had 60 members – eight orders of magnitude less than our current global society’s six billion.
我的原则始于这样一个认识，即：市场经济和自由、民主的社会是建立在人类的社会性、沟通和相互依赖这一非常古老的基础之上。这一基础在人类社会只有60个成员的情况下难以发挥作用—现代全球社会的60亿人口要高出8个数量级。