You might expect the Skidelskys to make common cause with those economists who believethat maximising happiness should be the goal of public policy. Not a bit of it. What makespeople happy, they argue, is not necessarily good. They have little time for statisticalmeasures of happinessor the pursuit of any single metric. That would imply that theelements of the good life could be traded off against each other, which they deny. Nor do theSkidelskys ally themselves with environmentalists. Greens reject growth because theybelieve it cannot be sustained without wrecking the planet. But what if it can? Better, saythe Skidelskys, to pursue the good life for its own sake.
一些经济学家认为公共政策的目标是将幸福最大化。你或许会以为斯基德尔斯基父子会与这些经济学家有所合作。那你们就想错了。父子提出理由说明使人们幸福的事物并不一定是美好的事物。他们没有时间进行数据统计衡量幸福,也没有时间衡量其他事物。那说明生活的美好元素是可以相互平衡协调,对此父子两人不以肯定。两人也没有与环保学家合作。环保人士否定经济增长的意义,因为他们认为经济要持续增长就必须破坏地球。但是如果不用破坏地球呢?斯基德尔斯基父子说,那最好只为生活而追求美好生活。
Capitalism, they note, has made possible vast improvements in material conditions, but italso fuels human insatiability. One way it does this is by increasingly monetising theeconomy. Monetisation is what vexes Michael Sandel, a Harvard political philosopher, inWhat Money Can t Buy. Mr Sandel poses a single question: has the role of markets spreadtoo far?
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