诺贝尔经济学奖得主让·梯若尔教授在港中大（深圳）首届本科生毕业典礼上的讲话

在5月20日香港中文大学（深圳）首届本科生毕业典礼上，港中大（深圳）杰出访问教授、诺贝尔经济学奖得主让·梯若尔教授鼓励大家要有思辨能力、创新意识和自信。他希望同学们要学会感恩，“感谢那些支持你的人、你的教授、你的家长，”让·梯若尔教授希望毕业生们能够在走入社会的同时承担起相应的责任，“你们会面对很多的挑战，当今世界和未来都是如此，但你们要有责任心，为社会做出贡献。”

诺贝尔经济学奖得主让·梯若尔教授

在香港中文大学（深圳）

首届本科生毕业典礼上的讲话

大家早上好！毕业生们、家长们早上好！大约四年前，瑞典皇家科学院给我打电话，想要通知我一个让人惊喜的好消息。我一开始没接电话，当时正在开会，而也没预料到会有来电。但对方不停来电，在同事建议下，我接听了这个电话。接下来，正如大家所言，是见证历史的一刻了。那一天标志着我学术生涯的高峰，尽管当时我不太清楚发生了什么。其实，我现在还有点恍如隔梦。然而获得诺贝尔奖就像一个神奇的里程碑，从此改变了我生活的方方面面。

我希望今日的毕业典礼对你们来说也是一个新里程的开始。也许你现在还没有意识到，但若干年后，当你回顾这四年，回忆起大学的课程和生活的时候，你会意识到你的生活从毕业起已经开始改变了，你会意识到你已经在自己的道路上走了多远。今日的毕业典礼象征着你们四年来学业、发现、怀疑和努力的终点。

你也许觉得诺贝尔奖得主都是卓越超凡的人，就如超人一般，至少我曾这么认为。直到我也成为了诺奖得主，才发现并非如此。

我只是一个普通人。我的母亲是一位教师。当我获得诺贝尔经济学奖的时候，有人问她：“你的儿子是天才吗？”她说：“当然不是。”确实，如果你告诉我有一天我将获得诺奖，我会觉得你疯了。

但是每一位诺贝尔奖获得者，正如各行各业的成功人士一样，都有着相似的故事与品质：

1.  勤奋工作。

2．坚持。2014年的诺贝尔化学奖颁给了罗马尼亚人斯特凡·W·赫尔。他在海德堡大学获得了博士学位。其实，他的博士论文早已为他的获奖播下了种子。当时，他没有工作，后来去了芬兰的图尔库大学。但他始终奋斗，直到他的想法被世人所认可。

3. 对所在的领域充满激情, 同时追求卓越。

4. 拥有正确的态度，懂得如何带着希望去思考——相信自己能够获得数据，相信假设的理论终会被证明是正确的；但在大胆假设的同时，必须也要小心求证，深刻意识到认真分析的重要性。

5.天时，地利，人和。这些运气成分对一个人来说也是非常重要的。

诺贝尔经济学奖得主让·梯若尔教授致辞

你们拥有成就一番大事的天赋与资源，不要停止探索，直到做到最好。不要因为荣誉而懈怠。你的成就，将远超你的想象。

因此，我给大家的第一个建议就是：必须相信自己。你的热情、你所处的环境会帮你走得更远。

我的第二个建议是：学会感恩曾经支持你的人。

感谢孜孜不倦，倾囊相授的教授和老师们，

感谢这些年来始终默默地帮助、陪伴着你们的家人和朋友们。

第三是要负责任。在你抵达人生新阶段的同时，你会面临许多机会以及责任。作为曾经接受过一流经济学和商业培训的港中大学子，你们必须不懈努力，要不负学校的声名，致力于我们的共同的热情--经济学—之中。 

你们毕业于一个充满挑战的时代，经济学显得尤为重要。我们该如何通过了不起的数字化革命，为社会、消费者、工人与公民做贡献呢？我们该如何控制气候变化以保护我们敬畏的地球呢？我们如何保证这样复杂的经济体系能够有效运作呢？我们如何去保证慷慨和理性会将胜过民粹主义和民族主义，成为未来的主流呢？

你们必须克服在我的书《公共利益经济学》中强调的认知偏见，例如我们对第一印象、直观推断和叙述的依赖，例如只相信我们想要相信的东西，只看到我们想看到的事物等等。这些认知偏见，被那些想要宣传自我封闭、憎恨言论和反动思想的人士狡猾地利用了。相比之下，科学世界没有边界。这些知识你们都可以在大学里学到。

作为新的一代，你们会面对很多艰巨但让人兴奋的挑战。你们的一言一行，需要对社会负责任。当科学与知识被人们所鄙弃，当经济学被误解或被删减至只剩一些简单的概念时，你们必须坚定地站在自己的立场上，向人们解释为什么科学与知识对这个世界以及未来发展如此重要。你们要向人们展示，经济学能够做很多事情，能让这个世界变得更美好。通过这些行为，你也为社会做出了贡献。

感谢各位，祝各位前程似锦。

Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole's Speech

 at The First Graduation Ceremony for Bachelor Degree Graduates, CUHK-Shenzhen

Dear graduates, class of 2014,

A little less than four years ago, the Royal Swedish academy of sciences called me with some rather outstanding news. I didn’t answer at first, being in a meeting and not expecting a call. After ten minutes of ringing, the colleague I was with suggested I picked up the ever-buzzing phone, and the rest - as they say - is history. That day marked a culminating point in my career and while I didn’t really know what was happening to me then, and I’m still not sure. I do, it was the start of an incredible adventure that has changed many things in my life.

I believe today marks a similar change for all of you. You might not think about it right away, but in a few years’ time, you will look back to your years spent here - hopefully with fond memories of both the classrooms and the student life - and realize how your lives have changed since then, realize how far you’ve come. This important day marks the end of four years of studies, discoveries, doubts, and of course hard work.

Jean Tirole delivers a keynote speech

You might think that Nobel laureates are extraordinary people, some kind of supermen or superwomen- at least that is what I thought, until I was admitted into the club, to paraphrase Groucho Marx.

At least I was not. When I received the Prize, my mother, a teacher, was asked on radio whether her son was a genius, she correctly answered: “definitely not”. Indeed if you had asked me that one day I would win the prize I would have thought you were insane.

But each Nobel laureate, like more generally professionally successful people, has a story and has qualities; he or she is:

‣ Is hard working

‣ Is obstinate. In 2014 the chemistry prize was awarded to a Rumanian, Steffan Hell, who had received his PhD from Heidelberg University. The content of his thesis in effect was the seeds for his Nobel Prize. He did not get a job, was unemployed, later moved to the University of Turku in Finland, and fought until the originality of his ideas was recognized.

‣ Is totally passionate about his/her field while at the same time being critical of it.

‣ Has the right attitude, knows how to engage in wishful thinking- believe that data will deliver, that the tentative theorem will prove correct- while being deeply aware of the need to carefully check one’s analysis.

‣ Benefits from occasional serendipity and has further managed to be in the right place at the right time. One cannot overstress the role that others play in one’s own intelligence.

You have the talent and the tools, don’t stop until you know you’re at your very best and, even then, don’t rest on your laurels. You all can do amazing things.

So the first thing to take home is to believe in yourself. Then, your passion and your environment will take you a long way.

The second recommendation is to experience this day with deep gratitude to everyone who has supported you on your journey here.

‣ your professors and administrative staff, who demonstrate passion in their work and a generosity of spirit in their relationships with their students,

‣ your families and friends who have supported you all these years.

My third and last take-home point concerns your responsibility.

Your new degree comes with many opportunities, but also a few duties. As trained economists and business people and as Chinese University of Hong Kong graduates, you will have to relentlessly represent the excellence of your institution and the rigor of our common passion, economics.

You graduate today in an era of worldwide challenges that are more than ever in need of economics – how can we manage the impressive digital revolution to benefit society and protect consumers, workers and citizens? How can we control climate change to protect and respect our planet? How can we ensure that increasingly complex financial systems stay healthy and efficient? How can we ensure that generosity and reason will prevail against populism and nationalism?

You will have to combat the cognitive biases emphasized throughout my book Economics for the common good, e.g. our reliance on first impressions, our dependence on heuristics and narratives, our eagerness to believe what we want to believe, see what we want to see. Cognitive biases that are so skilfully exploited by those who want to propagate inward-looking attitudes, hate speech, and reactionary ideas. The world of science by contrast has no frontiers, no boundaries. What a better symbol than this hotbed of knowledge, your university.

You are the generation that will tackle our many daunting but exciting challenges. You will behave in a socially responsible way. And, at a time when science is regularly attacked and knowledge disregarded, when economics is often misunderstood and reduced to simple ideas, you will have to stand your ground and relentlessly explain why science and knowledge are so important for the world and its future. You will have to show what economics is capable of, and employ it to make this world a better place. By so doing, you will promote the common good.

Many thanks to all of you. I wish you all the best for the future!

The First Graduation Ceremony for Bachelor Degree Graduates

让·梯若尔教授简介

让·梯若尔教授现任法国图卢兹大学产业经济研究所科研所长、图卢兹高等研究院（IAST）执行委员会主席。

因在“市场力量及管制”分析方面有卓越科研成果，Jean Tirole教授于2014年荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。瑞典皇家科学院称赞他是“这个时代最具影响力的经济学家之一”。

让·梯若尔教授还是麻省理工学院和巴黎高等社会科学研究院等大学的访问学者，法兰西人文院的成员。他曾在1998年当选世界经济计量学会主席，2001年当选为欧洲经济学会主席。他在国际上发表了200多篇论文，并出版了12本科学专著。

About the Speaker

Jean Tirole is scientific director of the Institute for Industrial Economics in Toulouse. He is chairman of the Executive Committee, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) . 

When awarding him solo the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014 for his research on understanding and regulating markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences applauded Jean Tirole as “one of the most influential economists of our times”. 

He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, and with EHESS, and is a member of the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He was president of the Econometric Society in 1998 and of the European Economic Association in 2001. He has published over two hundred articles in international reviews, as well as twelve scientific books. 

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