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.
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.
發表於2024-11-27
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公眾號:夜闌擾擾 我常常給朋友說我是一個物質欲很低的人,近乎斷捨離的佛係活法,讓我整個人狼性氣質嚴重不足。 我覺得吃東西健康衛生就好,用東西實用有性價比就好,住房子不用很大安全夠住就好,衣服夠穿就好,長相也就這樣偶爾化化妝不讓人討厭就好。在周圍人都在努力消費...
評分美好生活的基本元素 ——讀《金錢與好的生活》 “在我年輕的時候,曾以為金錢是世界上最重要的東西。現在我老瞭,纔知道的確如此。”正如奧斯卡·王爾德所言,在這個功利的世界上,大多數人都不能脫俗地摯愛著“錢”,總覺得“有錢就有一切”。但是,有錢並不等於幸福,並不等...
評分美好生活的基本元素 ——讀《金錢與好的生活》 “在我年輕的時候,曾以為金錢是世界上最重要的東西。現在我老瞭,纔知道的確如此。”正如奧斯卡·王爾德所言,在這個功利的世界上,大多數人都不能脫俗地摯愛著“錢”,總覺得“有錢就有一切”。但是,有錢並不等於幸福,並不等...
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All we must do is to curb our insatiability for wealth, and strive for the true values of good life.
評分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...
評分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...
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評分前半部分講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錶格,但對我這樣數學盲和邏輯菜鳥來說,也並不覺得吃力。
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