对于准备考试托福的同学来说，托福阅读是非常重要的，那么今天就和出国留学网的小编一起来了解一下托福阅读素材：自由交流-更冷静的头脑。
Free exchange
A cooler head
Thomas Schelling， economist and nuclear strategist， died on December 13th， aged 95
自由交流
更冷静的头脑
经济学家、核战略家托马斯·谢林于2016年12月13日辞世，享年95岁
WITHIN half an hour of waking up on October 10th 2005， Thomas Schelling received four phone calls. The first was from the secretary of the Nobel Committee， with news that he and Robert Aumann had jointly won that year’s prize for economics. During the fourth call， when asked how winning felt， he answered： “Well， it feels busy.” He was nothing if not truthful. He also confessed to feeling confused about which bit of his work had won the prize.
2005年10月10日，托马斯·谢林（Thomas Schelling）在醒来后的半小时内接了四个电话。第一个是诺贝尔奖委员会的秘书打来的，告知他和罗伯特·奥曼（Robert Aumann）共同获得了该年的诺贝尔经济学奖。到了第四个电话，当被问到获奖有何感受时，谢林答道：“哦，觉得挺忙的”。他再坦率不过了。他还坦言觉得纳闷，不知道自己因为哪部分成果拿了这个奖。
It might have been his work on addiction—flicked off like ash from his own struggles with smoking. Economists must understand， he wrote， the man who swears “never again to risk orphaning his children with lung cancer”， yet is scouring the streets three hours later for an open shop selling cigarettes. Mr Schelling’s work laid （largely unacknowledged） foundations for future behavioural economists. In his thinking， addicts have two selves， one keen for healthy lungs and another craving a smoke. Self-control strategies involve drawi...