Chief executives are unlikely to be feeling enthusiastic about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose members have recently won a slate of nominations to represent the Democratic Party in November’s midterm elections.(首席执行官们不太可能对DSA的崛起感到热情，其成员最近赢得了一系列提名。) Last month the left-wing political group published a manifesto, titled “Workers Deserve More”, that decried(公开谴责) the power of big business and called for “public ownership(公有制，国有化) of the largest corporations”.
首席执行官们不太可能对美国民主社会主义者（DSA）的崛起感到热情，该组织成员最近赢得了一系列提名，将在11月的中期选举中代表民主党。上个月，这个左翼政治团体发布了一份题为《工人应得更多》的宣言，谴责大企业的权力，并呼吁“最大型企业的公有制”。
Most Americans do not share the DSA’s enthusiasm for widespread nationalisation, but many do feel a great deal of antipathy(反感，厌恶) towards large companies. In a survey published in April, just 15% told Gallup, a pollster, that they had confidence in big business, a hair above(略高于) the all-time low. It is not that business in general is reviled(辱骂，痛斥): more than 70% of Americans express confidence in small firms. Since Gallup began asking, the gap between the two has been wider only once. Indeed, the easiest way to make an industry sound sinister(邪恶的，不祥的) these days is simply to add the adjective “big”: big pharma, big food, big oil, big tech(大制药、大食品、大石油、大科技).
大多数美国人并不赞同DSA对广泛国有化的热情，但许多人的确对大公司怀有强烈的反感。在4月发布的一项调查中，只有15%的人告诉民调机构盖洛普，他们对大企业有信心，这一比例略高于历史最低点。并非所有企业都遭到唾弃：超过70%的美国人对小企业表示信心。自盖洛普开始调查以来，两者之间的差距只有一次比现在更大。事实上，如今让一个行业听起来可怕的最简单方法就是加上“大”这个形容词：大制药、大食品、大石油、大科技。
From one angle the suspicion makes sense. Scale begets(产生，引起) power: over prices, over workers, over suppliers, perhaps over whole markets. Yet being able to bemoan(哀叹，悲叹) the supposed evils of big business is something of a(在某种程度上是) privilege. Policymakers have long thought that economic growth was generated by nimble(灵活的，敏捷的) and innovative small firms. That view, however, is being challenged by a growing body of literature which argues it is big business that really matters when it comes to making countries more prosperous.(然而，这一观点正受到越来越多的文献的挑战，这些文献认为大企业才是真正重要的。)
从一个角度看，这种怀疑是有道理的。规模产生权力：对价格、对工人、对供应商，或许对整个市场。然而，能够哀叹大企业所谓的罪恶，在某种程度上是一种特权。政策制定者长期以来一直认为，经济增长是由灵活创新的小企业创造的。然而，这一观点正受到越来越多的文献的挑战，这些文献认为，在让国家更加繁荣方面，大企业才是真正重要的。