南宮夫人

The Undercover Economist作者Tim Harford，乃著名搞鬼經濟學者，在周末《金融時報》有地盤Dear Economist，運用“亞當•史密夫之工具”(此乃原文照譯)解答世界各地讀者奇難雜症。

今期獲Harford抽中回應的是一個在倫敦上大學的三年級心急人，請教這位著名經濟學者他應否向暗戀多時的室友示愛？

以我已經99.438%還番畀張五常教授而剩低所餘無幾的經濟學知識去理解Mr Harford那三段利用經濟理論做出來的分析，其實係唔知佢講咗啲咩。

幸好，最後一段我明。他是這樣說的：you shouldn't make your move if you feel the odds are against you. I suspect they are. The chances are that this young woman knows exactly how you feel. Since she has done nothing to encourage you, I suspect she is praying you'll keep your feelings to yourself.

咦，做咗幾十年人嘅話都應該可以畀到呢個advice，懂不懂經濟學基本上是無關宏旨的。Mr Harford，你那3/4篇稿有呃稿費之嫌喎？！餘下那1/4，我建議你應該計番畀南宮夫人，咁就啱數了。

(對不起，今日惡搞了Mr Harford，請見諒:P)