These two scenarios of the origins of economic nationalism, one irrational and the other not, are not real alternatives, but describe responses that intertwine: the more rational the fear, the more that fear can be used as an instrument of politics.
对于经济国家主义来源的这两种解释，一种是非理性的，另一种则不是。这两者都不能真正地说明问题，但却描绘了一种相互交织的反应：恐惧越理性，它就越容易沦为政治工具。