金砖四国的概念是高盛在2003年提出的，这个概念看起来不坏，至少75%的正确，它比当今社会的其他经济概念来的要准确一些。
Set the vital statistics of the BRIC economies side-by-side and it becomes painfully obvious that, in the words of the old Sesame Street game, “One of these things is not like the other.”