来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融市场 第3集 第3集》
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There were a lot of other things that happened19世纪还发生了许多其他的事情 -
in the nineteenth century that advanced information technology推动了信息技术的进步 -
and made finance really powerful.也使得金融开始强大起来 -
One was paper, it sounds very simple.其中一件就是纸 听起来非常简单 -
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800,在19世纪初叶 即1800年 -
paper was handmade out of cloth-- that's the way they made it.当时的人用布料手工制纸 -
Paper, therefore, was very expensive.因此当时纸非常昂贵 -
So, if you bought a newspaper你要是在当时买报纸的话 -
it would be only two sheets恐怕只有两页纸 -
because it was so expensive--因为纸实在是太贵了 -
not all the thick paper that we have today--而且我们现在用的那种厚纸很少见 -
and it would cost something like按照今天的物价水平