The title of Tyler Cowen’s paean of praise for big business might strike even a pro-business reader as quixotic. Loving an abstraction is hard enough. But this particular abstraction inspires a remarkable lack of trust. According to a 2016 Gallup poll quoted by the author, an economist at George Mason University, just 6 per cent of Americans trust big business “a great deal”. Congress alone, out of a list of other US institutions, scores less.
就連一名親企業(yè)的讀者，也可能覺(jué)得泰勒?考恩(Tyler Cowen)贊揚(yáng)大企業(yè)的書名不切實(shí)際。喜愛(ài)一個(gè)抽象實(shí)體已經(jīng)夠難了。更何況這些抽象實(shí)體激發(fā)引人注目的信任缺失。根據(jù)身為喬治梅森大學(xué)(George Mason University)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家的作者援引的2016年蓋洛普(Gallup)民調(diào)結(jié)果，只有6%的美國(guó)人“非常信任”大企業(yè)。在一份美國(guó)其他機(jī)構(gòu)的名單中，只有國(guó)會(huì)得分更低。