intellectual influences,are usually the slave of some defunct economist.

通常是一些已故经济学家的奴隶
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air,

掌权的疯子听信空穴来风的事
are distilling their frenzy

正淬炼着他们的疯狂
from some academic scribbler of a few years back" .

从几年前一些三流学者中
So this course will be devoted to the study of those "academic scribblers"

所以本课程将献给对那些"三流学者"所作的研究
who have written books that continue to impress

他们的著作持续烙下
and create the forms of authority with which we are familiar.

并创造我们所熟知的权威形式
But one thing we should not do, right,

但有件事我们不应当做
one thing we should not do is to approach these works

也就是我们不应在阅读这些著作时
as if they provide,

认定他们好像能提供解答
somehow, answers, ready-made answers to the problems of today.

针对当今问题的现成答案
Only we can provide answers to our problems.

只有我们才能对此给出答案