and this was the background to the course

这是这门课的背景知识
so that you're all familiar.

也是你们都已经很熟悉了的东西
Those of you who haven't taken freshman economics or

那些还没有学过初级或中级经济学的同学
intermediate economics, what's the background that's required for the course?

你们应该掌握一些什么样的背景知识呢
And the fact that general equilibrium is a part of finance

一般均衡是金融的一部分的这种说法
is, as I say, a bit of an innovation

我认为是创新性的
because most finance courses are taught entirely

淫威大部分的金融课程都是
independently of economic theory.

完全独立于经济理论所教授的
But the two greatest Yale economists

但是两位最伟大的耶鲁的经济学家
and two greatest Yale financial economists

也是两位伟大的金融经济学家
had finance and economics integrated,

将金融和经济整合了起来
and I believe that's the only right way of looking at the problem.

并且我认为这是审视这个问题的最好方式