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嗯,第一,书。
Well, number one, the books.
Hagstrom 给我寄来了他那本写 Warren Buffett 的新书《The Warren Buffett Portfolio》的几个章节,我当时没看,因为我觉得他的第一本书还算体面,但对人类知识的贡献不算太多。
Hagstrom sent me chapters of his latest book on Warren Buffett called The Warren Buffett Portfolio, and I didn't read them because I thought his first book was a respectable book but didn't contribute too much to human knowledge.
后来,不管怎么说吧,他把第二本书的完整版也寄给了我,我读了以后,真是大吃一惊,发现它不但写得非常好,而且对整合 Buffett 的思想也有相当大的贡献。
And anyway, he sent me the second book, a full version, and I read it and I was flabbergasted to find it not only very well written, but a considerable contribution to the synthesis of Buffett's ideas.
我注意到机场里也在大力宣传这本书,它的书名叫《The Warren Buffett Portfolio》。
I noticed the airport was heavily promoting it, and it's called The Warren Buffett Portfolio.
它不会替你挑任何股票。
It doesn't pick any stocks for you.
这是理性的。
Rationally.
今年还有一本我非常喜欢的书,是《Titan》,也就是最初那位 John D. Rockefeller 的传记。
Another book that I liked very much this year was Titan, the biography of the original John D. Rockefeller.
那真是一本非常非常精彩的书,我还不知道有谁读过之后会不喜欢。
That is just a wonderful, wonderful book, and I don't know anybody who's read it who hasn't enjoyed it.
所以我当然会推荐这本最新的 John D. Rockefeller 一世传记。
So I would certainly recommend that latest biography of John D. Rockefeller I.
第三本书,某种程度上算是重访了我一两年前推荐过的那本《Guns, Germs, and Steel》的主题;那本书是一个生理学家视角下的人类经济史。
The third book is sort of a revisitation of the subject matter of the book I recommended a year or two ago called Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was a physiologist's view of the economic history of man.
而且那是一本很精彩的书。
And it was a wonderful book.
现在,这片很大程度上相同的领域,又被一位 Harvard 的历史学荣休教授重新覆盖了一遍;而他懂的经济学和科学知识,远远超过一般历史教授常见的水平,这也让他有更好的洞见。
And much of that same territory has now been covered by an emeritus history professor from Harvard who just knows way more economics and science than is common for a history professor, and that gives him better insight.
他的书名是在 Adam Smith 的基础上做了个变体,叫《The Wealth and Poverty of Nations》,作者叫 Landes。
And his book is a takeoff in title on Adam Smith, and the title is The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and the guy's name is Landes.