2015考研英语阅读金钱与市场_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读金钱与市场

　　How Much Is Enough? and What Money Can t Buy are well-argued versions of this secondview. In the former, Robert and Edward Skidelsky, a father-and-son pair of Britishacademics, take as their text an essay written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes mused that within acentury the economic problem would be solved: in rich countries people would be at leastfour times wealthier, on average, and have to work perhaps 15 hours a week. He looks rightabout living standards, but horribly wrong about working hours.

　　《多少才算够?》和《钱买不到的东西》这两本书，雄辩地论证了上面所说的第二种观点。前一本书的作者是英国父子学者罗伯特斯科德尔斯基和爱德华斯科德尔斯基。他们在书中从约翰梅纳德凯因斯在1930年写的一篇论文说起。凯恩斯在那篇论文文中预言，不出一百年，经济问题将不成其为问题。在富裕国家中，人们的财富将增加三倍，平均每周将只工作15小时。他对生活水平的预言看来是对的，但对工作时间的预言却大错特错了。

　　In the rich world the modern economic problem, the Skidelskys say, is how to live well amidplenty, not how to survive amid scarcity. Yet the West still chases slavishly afterever-higher gross domestic product, a purely material measure that takes no account ofthe blessings of nature or leisure. Humanity has become insatiable, in short. It is time tostop and rediscover the good life. This they identify with a list of basic goods: health,security, respect, personality , harmony with nature, andleisure.