低利率意味着不公平|经济学人(6)

为什么人们应当为存储早已挣到手的钱付费呢?

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Earlier cuts below zero in Switzerland,Denmark, Sweden and the euro area were scarcely more popular.

瑞士、丹麦、瑞典和欧元区的早先低于0的减息几乎一点也不受欢迎。

But these monetary innovations would havestruck some earlier economic thinkers as entirely natural.

但是，这些货币政策方面的创新却会作为完全自然的创新而打动某些较早时候的经济学家。

Indeed, "The Natural EconomicOrder" was the title that Silvio Gesell gave to his 1916 treatise in favour of negative interest rates on money.

《自然的经济秩序》是西尔沃.格塞尔(SilvioGesell)给他1916年的一篇主张货币负利率的论文所起的题目。

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In it, he span his own shipwreck parable,in which a lone Robinson Crusoe tries to save three years" worth of provisionsto tide him over while he devotes his energiesto digging a canal.