Here is a country that has long cherished its “exception” from the normal rules of market economics, a foggy view that rejects both central planning and free markets and claims to offer a well-balanced middle ground. The French do not care that they have never been able to articulate their vision of a “third way,” for they remain deeply convinced that the state has a key role to play in steering markets in order to defend “higher” values from the single-minded pursuit of materialism.
法国在经济上也遭受了损失。法国珍惜它能长期破例游离于市场经济的常规之外，模糊地保持着拒绝中央规划和自由市场的立场，并声称能够在两者之间找到一个更平衡的中立点。法国人不在乎他们从未能够清楚阐明他们对“第三种办法”的看法，因为他们坚信法国在驾驭市场中要扮演着重要的、在单纯追求物质主义中维护“更高的”价值观的角色。