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Passion and Skill He Fan: A few of my friends opened a column called "Three Academic Migrant Workers". They work shifts and write with pleasure. They have written about value chains in international trade, paid attention to the internationalization of the renminbi, talked about the overseas investment of Chinese companies based on Japan's experience in the past, and talked about the distant past of the Asian Development Bank when introducing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. I am a big reader of their column, and I really like the calm and eloquent style of several friends, and I like that they can always maintain their curiosity about all things in the world. Why do they call themselves "academic migrant workers"? Perhaps because people in the financial world invented the self-deprecating term "financial migrant worker". The financial industry looks tall, but it is actually an extremely complex ecosystem, at the top of the biological chain are shining big people, but at the bottom of the biological chain is a group of suit-ready, busy, miserable "little ants". The similarities between academia and finance are that both look sacred and brilliant, but are actually chicken feathers. Young academics face increasing competitive pressures. Self-deprecation is an effective way to relieve stress. But I think comparing "migrant workers" to young scholars may be biased. I've always felt that the work of academics is very similar to that of farmers. Comparing scholars to farmers is a compliment to scholars. Farmers who farm in the fields often need a higher level of technology than "migrant workers" on the factory assembly line. When I was living in New York, I had a whim to grow vegetables in my backyard, and when I started it, I realized that farm work is not easy. You need to know the season, you need to water and fertilize, you need to cultivate soil and weed, it is really a technical job. Scholars, like farmers, spend most of their time doing individual labor. Whether the harvest is good or not, depends on the weather, but also depends on the effort you put in. Wear the stars and the moon, go out early and return late, the effort is spent, the natural harvest will be more, and the relationship between input and output is quite clear. Learning is not as good as doing business or being an official, and if you do business or become an official, you encounter too much uncertainty, and many factors cannot be determined by manpower. Academics are much simpler. It is relatively easy to determine who the academic results are, just as it is easy to distinguish which farmer planted a wheat field or vegetable garden. Academic learning is a profession with relatively little risk and of course relatively low return. If this hypothesis is true, a reasoning is that most of the people suitable for learning are people of medium intellectual level and medium moral level. To put it more pertinently, scholars work more like "craftsmen." Economics is far from reaching the realm of science, and according to Yang Xiaokai, at most it is the level of alchemy before the birth of chemistry. Sometimes the logic of economics is correct, but in reality there is no result in line with theoretical reasoning. Sometimes economists are right, but a correct answer does not necessarily mean that the solution is correct. We can indeed find that some economists are higher than others, but why are they high? Not necessarily because the theory he preached is superior, but also on other subtle factors, such as "tacit knowledge," such as intuition about economics, such as the ability to persuade others. How are these skills learned? In fact, most of them are not learned, but realized. How did you come to know it? In most cases, it is immersed in it for a long time, and it is cultivated by ears and eyes. Without him, but with familiar hands. One of the popular books called "The Spirit of Craftsmanship" is an inspirational book that is not well written, but this formulation can be enlightening. A good craftsman has a pursuit of craftsmanship, without distractions and excellence. If you play carefully, every seemingly ordinary job contains the realm of Zen. Inserting a pot of flowers, making a dish, making a sickle, carving a medal, can make people so intoxicated that they forget everything. Watching a rough stone slowly turn into a smooth and lubricated statue in your hands will give a joy that only a Creator can enjoy. "There is a true meaning in it, and the desire to argue has been forgotten." What makes craftsmen more noble than scholars is that most craftsmen are humble more than scholars. That's why Keynes once lamented that if only economists could be as capable and humble as dentists. There's an interview with a leading economist called Passion and Craft. Those of us who study economics, from elementary macroeconomics and microeconomics, to intermediate, advanced macro, microeconomics, from primary econometrics, to all kinds of advanced econometrics, are nothing more than to hone our skills. But only skill, but a craftsman. To stand out among countless craftsmen, you also need passion. The thirst for knowledge, the reverence for truth, curiosity about the unknown, and awareness of the known require that unswerving passion. Financial column articles, in the eyes of everyone, are just small tricks of carving insects, and there is no high theory. The reason why several friends were able to persevere and publish a book was because of their love for economics. There is enough joy in it, and I forget to return. I hope that their love of economics can be like a starry candlelight, giving a little comfort and encouragement to lonely night travelers.（AI翻译）
