Economic policy makers in the United States took swaggering pride in the cutthroat but lucrative form of capitalism that was supposedly indigenous to their frontier nation.

• 美国经济政策制定者对于这种残酷但是利润丰厚的资本主义形式特别地引以为傲。他们认为他们这个“边疆之国”正是这种资本主义形式的策源地。