信息时代繁荣经济的十个要点和禁忌

信息时代繁荣经济的十个要点和禁忌

Ten Dos and Don’ts for a Thriving Economy in an Information Age.

1.

Do keep government regular and predictable, a low-entropy carrier, not an unpredictable high-entropy manipulator.

保持政府的规范和可预测性，让其成为一个低熵的承载者，而不是一个不可预测的高熵操纵者。

2.

Do keep money as predictable, irreversible, fraud-free, and fungible as time.

让金钱像时间一样可预测、不可逆转、无欺诈和可替代。

3.

Do allow bankruptcy and failure. It opens up the future to new creations.

请允许破产和失败。它为新的创造打开了未来。

4.

Do promote experimentation (cryptocurrencies, carbon-based inventions, new business models), but don’t predetermine or subsidize outcomes.

推动实验（加密货币、碳基发明、新商业模式），但不要预先确定或补贴结果。

5.

Do favor trade and exchange, which expand opportunity and creativity through the dispersal of knowledge and power.

通过知识和权力的分散，进行互惠贸易和交流，扩大机会和创造力。

6.

Don’t control prices. They are a precious source of dispersed information and knowledge. Learn the record of the unrelenting failure of price controls in the definitive book: Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation, by Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler.

不要控制价格。它们是分散信息和知识的宝贵来源。了解价格控制的持续失败记录，请阅读罗伯特·L·舒特林格和伊蒙·F·巴特勒的经典之作《四千年的工资和价格控制：如何不对抗通胀》。

7.

Don’t give guarantees. Entropy and surprise are what define information, knowledge, and learning. Government guarantees thwart discovery and surprise and suppress learning.

不要给出保证。信息、知识和学习的定义就是熵和惊喜。政府的保证扼杀了发现和惊喜，抑制了学习。

8.

Don’t subsidize the incumbent structures of economic power. What exists is obsolescent.不要对现有的经济权力结构进行补贴。现有的结构已经过时。

9.

Don’t fight uncertainty—the future is unpredictable; if you let it happen it will be better than you can imagine it.

不要与不确定性争斗——未来是不可预测的；如果你让它发生，它会比你想象的更好。

10.

Do remember you are not in control.请记住你并不掌控。