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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 265

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资

Manufactures, shipping, labour--all have for end the general, the public good; to create useless industries, to favour superfluous conveyances, to support a greater amount of labour than is necessary, not for the good of the public, but at the expense of the public--is to realize a true _petitio principii_. It is not labour which is desirable for its own sake; it is consumption. All labour without a commensurate result is a loss. You may as well pay sailors for pitching stones into the sea as pay them for transporting useless refuse. Thus, we arrive at the result to which all economic sophisms, numerous as they are, conduct us, namely, confounding the means with the end, and developing the one at the expense of the other.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 265 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

巴斯夏点破所有经济诡辩的共同毛病:把手段当目的。制造业、航运、劳动都只是手段,真正目的是公众的消费和福祉。如果为了多雇人而制造无用产业、为了多运货而绕远路,那就是让公众多花钱买罪受。劳动本身不值得追求,值得追求的是消费;没有相应成果的劳动就是纯损失,跟付钱让水手往海里扔石头没两样。所以看政策,要问它最终让谁受益、成本由谁承担。

上下文

巴斯夏在《经济诡辩》中反复批驳“劳动即财富”的重商主义错觉,强调消费才是经济目的。

今日一问

你最近做的哪件事,是在“为忙而忙”,而没有带来真实成果?

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