"PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL" の中で、Adam Smithが "honesty is always the best policy" と主張していたとの記述があり、その後にある文からの引用です。
That sounds like a plausible industrial-age explanation, as balanced and harmonious as a set of balance weights and perfectly meshed gears. However optimistic this perspective might seem, Smith's theory had a darker corollary: since people engage in a cost-benefit analysis with regard to honesty, they can also engage in a cost-benefit analysis to be dishonest.
"darker corollary" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1: a proposition inferred immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof
2. a: something that naturally follows : result
b: something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels
Examples:
1. (one corollary of the rise of television was a massive makeover of radio's programming)
2. (increased taxes--or expanding deficits--are the inevitable corollary to any new government spending program)
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: something that results from something else; Unfortunately, violence is the inevitable corollary of such a revolutionary change in society.
覚えていた方が良さそうな単語だ。
That sounds like a plausible industrial-age explanation, as balanced and harmonious as a set of balance weights and perfectly meshed gears. However optimistic this perspective might seem, Smith's theory had a darker corollary: since people engage in a cost-benefit analysis with regard to honesty, they can also engage in a cost-benefit analysis to be dishonest.
"darker corollary" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
1: a proposition inferred immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof
2. a: something that naturally follows : result
b: something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels
Examples:
1. (one corollary of the rise of television was a massive makeover of radio's programming)
2. (increased taxes--or expanding deficits--are the inevitable corollary to any new government spending program)
・Cambridge Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: something that results from something else; Unfortunately, violence is the inevitable corollary of such a revolutionary change in society.
覚えていた方が良さそうな単語だ。
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