How Much Is Enough?

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' - Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and aFellow of the British Academy in 1994. Edward Skidelsky is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department of the University of Exeter. He contributes regularly to the New Statesman, Telegraph, Spectator and Prospect. His previous books include The Conditions of Goodness and Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture.

出版者:Allen Lane

作者:Robert Skidelsky

页数:256

出版时间:2012-6-28

价格:GBP 20

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781846144486

图书标签:经济学经济哲学原版图书赚多少钱够美國經濟學economics

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In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has given way to a deeper dissatisfaction with an economic system geared overwhelmingly to the accumulation of wealth. Huge income disparities and an ever-growing gap between the richest and the rest has brought us to one of those rare moments when the underlying assumptions of society, are changing.

In How Much is Enough? Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not an end in itself but a means to the achievement and maintenance of a 'good life', and that our economy should be organised to reflect this fact. The book includes a definition of the 'good life', discusses the relevance of 'Happiness Studies' and the environmental impact of our ever-growing need to consume. In doing so, it offers an escape from the trap of excessive specialization and a way to reinvigorate the idea of economics as a 'moral science'. It concludes by offering a radical new model for income redistribution - and a consideration of what human beings might really want from their lives.

读后感

公众号：夜阑扰扰 我常常给朋友说我是一个物质欲很低的人，近乎断舍离的佛系活法，让我整个人狼性气质严重不足。 我觉得吃东西健康卫生就好，用东西实用有性价比就好，住房子不用很大安全够住就好，衣服够穿就好，长相也就这样偶尔化化妆不让人讨厌就好。在周围人都在努力消费...  

刚看到书名《金钱与好的生活》时，我在想，难道这本书是告诉我们拥有金钱，才能拥有好的生活吗？那么拥有多少金钱，我们才能过上美好的生活呢？我是带着这样的疑问与好奇，来打开这本书开始阅读的。 打开书的引言，第一句话：本书意在反对那种贪得无厌，“贪得无厌”指的是经济...  

公众号：夜阑扰扰 我常常给朋友说我是一个物质欲很低的人，近乎断舍离的佛系活法，让我整个人狼性气质严重不足。 我觉得吃东西健康卫生就好，用东西实用有性价比就好，住房子不用很大安全够住就好，衣服够穿就好，长相也就这样偶尔化化妆不让人讨厌就好。在周围人都在努力消费...  

美好生活的基本元素 ——读《金钱与好的生活》 “在我年轻的时候，曾以为金钱是世界上最重要的东西。现在我老了，才知道的确如此。”正如奥斯卡·王尔德所言，在这个功利的世界上，大多数人都不能脱俗地挚爱着“钱”，总觉得“有钱就有一切”。但是，有钱并不等于幸福，并不等...

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Although I agree with author's critique of existing problems of our current economic system and of our personal beliefs on wealth, and his analysis of why Keynes' economic vision was mistaken, yet I find his final argument to take future economics as a moral science to be novicely naive, obsolete and unhelpful...

Although I agree with author's critique of existing problems of our current economic system and of our personal beliefs on wealth, and his analysis of why Keynes' economic vision was mistaken, yet I find his final argument to take future economics as a moral science to be novicely naive, obsolete and unhelpful...

All we must do is to curb our insatiability for wealth, and strive for the true values of good life.

前半部分講Money，後半部分講Good Life，然後，從個體慢慢鋪墊上升到全體到人與自然的關係。雖然有各種餅狀圖和表格，但對我這樣數學盲和邏輯菜鳥來說，也並不覺得吃力。