NEW YORK – A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery). This seems right: people around the world can barely afford the rising health-care and school-tuition costs they currently face – costs that seem to increase each year faster than overall inflation.
发自纽约——有条著名的经济学理论认为服务（例如医疗和教育）的成本要比商品（比如食品，燃油和机械）成本更容易上涨。这看上去挺有道理，因为全球各地的人们都被当前不断上涨的医疗和学费压得喘不过气了——何况其逐年上涨幅度似乎比总体通胀更高。但有赖于当前的信息和通信技术革命，医疗，教育和其他服务的成本将有可能大幅下跌。