Mr Sandel does not say precisely where he thinks the limit should lie. That should be left, hehopes, to public debate. The Skidelskys are bolder, proposing policies that would encouragethe pursuit of the good life rather than endless growth: a basic income; a tax on consumptionrather than income; and an end to the tax-deductibility of company spending on advertising.This would reduce the incentive to work and the temptation to consume.
桑德尔先生并没有明确指出他认为市场的底线应在何处。他希望这个问题留给大众决定。斯基德尔斯基父子则较为大胆,提出若干政策以鼓励追求美好生活,而不是一味追求永无止境的经济增长。这些措施包括基本收入,收取消费税,取消个人收入所得税,对公司的广告支出重新征税。这些措施会减少人们工作和消费的欲望。
Does the rat race always detract from the good life? Only a few years ago, it would havebeen hard to imagine that whole libraries of books, music and information could besummoned to a phone in your palm; yet the pursuit of profit has helped to put them there.Nevertheless, How Much Is Enough? is a good question. Even if just now the West could dowith more, not less, GDP, the pursuit of wealth for its own sake is folly. Anyone who setsstore by capitalism and markets will find both books uncomfortable reading. They should beread all the same.
市场竞争激烈是否会使好生活减分不少?若干年前,将全图书馆的书籍,所有音乐和信息集于手掌上的电话,这种事根本是无法想象的。但是逐利的思想使之成为现实。不过多少钱才算够?这个问题提得好。即使现在西方国家国内生产总值增长了不少,仅为财富而追求财富,这种做法仍是愚蠢的。信奉资本主义和市场的人会觉得这两本书读起来很不舒服。不管怎样,这两本书都值得一读。
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