改革第一难题:破解既得利益集团

The utmost difficulty in reform:how to wipe out vested interest group

当既得利益集团太强大时,人们骤然发现,我们可能回到了亚当·斯密时代。斯密所描述的集体行动所产生的种种好处并没有落到穷人和普通大众手中,往往是在攫取普通居民的情况下。

It is startling to discover that when the vested interest group becomes stronger, we might go straight back to the time of Adam Smith, who described that many benefits of collective behavior did not go to the hands of the poor and the public, but to the vested interest group instead and usually on the basis of depriving ordinary citizens.