Why Capitalism? by Allan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University inPittsburgh, is an extended response to some of the calls he has received in recent years.The most thought-provoking came from a woman in Germany who, after reading the NewYork Times, wondered if, only two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was actuallywitnessing the implosion of the system that brought it down.
《为何是资本主义?》的作者Allan Meltzer是匹兹堡的卡耐基梅隆大学的一名经济学教授,该书主要是对他这几年收到的咨询电话做出的扩展回复。最发人深省的电话来自一名德国女士,她在看完纽约时报后,不由深思,当初正是资本主义推倒了柏林墙,如今柏林墙倒塌才20年,她是否就已经在亲临这一体制的逐渐崩溃。
Capitalisms core defence, Mr Meltzer argues, is that it is the only system that leads tofreedom and economic growth. It is less good at ensuring virtue or stability; failure is aninherent part. Indeed the authors observation that capitalism without failure is likereligion without sin. It doesnt work well, has already been widely circulated. However, thesins attributed to capitalismcorruption, fraud and greed, to name but threeare not onlypervasive in systems where the state controls production, but far more damaging and farless likely to be rectified.
Meltzer指出资本主义的最核心优势在于它是唯一能够带来自由和经济增长的制度。这一体系并不能保证道德常驻和社会稳定,所以失败崩溃是在所难免的。事实上,本书作者曾说过,不失败的资本主义就好比没有原罪的宗教,发挥不了什么作用。这一观点已广为流传。但是,资本主义带来的罪恶腐败,欺诈和贪婪,在此仅列举这三样不仅在政府控制生产的体制里蔚然成风,其危害性也非常大,并且并不好修正。
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