大全RC第九篇有两句话，NN们给看下这样理解对么？

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These economies employ intentional price-fixing, usually in an overt fashion. Formal price-fixing by cartel and informal price-fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are commonplace. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price-fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically in their economic development. There is no indication that they have.

翻译：这些经济运用蓄意的定价，通常以一种公开的形式。一个产业中通过卡特尔的正式定价和通过协议的非正式定价是平常的。如果存在一些关于自由市场特别有效和关于定价无效的事，那么这些避开第一个（即自由市场）而使用第二个（即定价）的国家将在经济发展中遭受剧烈打击。而没有事实证明他们如此。


NN们帮我看下，这样翻译有错么？它想表达态度是支持定价而反对自由市场么？就是觉得挺别扭的~~

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我来吧这篇文章贴出来，刚才那个句子是彩字部分~~

Passage 9 (9/63)
Most economists in the United States seem captivated by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter (for that matter: so far as that is concerned), established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems pernicious. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both “normal” and having a valuable economic function. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence, a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of consumers. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theories. But each large firm will also act with full consideration of the needs that it has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus avoid significant price-cutting, because price-cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest in a stable demand for products. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect it to be brought about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not.

Moreover, those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the economies of non-socialist countries other than the United states. These economies employ intentional price-fixing, usually in an overt fashion. Formal price-fixing by cartel and informal price-fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are commonplace. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price-fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically in their economic development. There is no indication that they have.

Socialist industry also works within a framework of controlled prices. In the early 1970’s, the Soviet Union began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution has accorded the capitalist system. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to the free market. But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by a free market over which they exercise little influence than are capitalist firms; rather, Soviet firms have been given the power to fix prices.

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你分析的好详细啊，我通常一篇看下来理解都太到位，归根结底，还是英语水平不够，长难句通常要看个两三遍才OK，对作者的每个论点不是很能理清~~杨鹏长难句是个好东西，之前看了，没坚持下去，决定最后一个月每天抽半小时看，果然是贵在坚持啊~~~

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谢谢，谢谢，谢谢.......宇宙超级霹雳无敌的谢谢~~~~