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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 50
弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资
But what is true with regard to sugar, cannot be otherwise with regard to bread. If, then, the _utility_ of any branch of industry is to be estimated not by the amount of satisfactions it is fitted to procure us with a determinate amount of labour, but, on the contrary, by the amount of labour which it exacts in order to yield us a determinate amount of satisfactions, what we ought evidently to desire is, that each acre of land should yield less corn, and each grain of com less nourishment; in other words, that our land should be comparatively barren; for then the quantity of land, capital, and manual labour that would be required for the maintenance of our population would be much more considerable; we could then say that the demand for human labour would be in direct proportion to this barrenness. The aspirations of MM. Bugeaud, Saint-Cricq, Dupin, and d'Argout, would then be satisfied; bread would be dear, labour abundant, and France rich--rich at least in the sense in which these gentlemen understand the word.
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定位:Excerpt 50 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
巴斯夏把糖的逻辑推到面包上:如果按达尔古他们的标准,一个行业的效用不取决于用一定劳动能带来多少满足,而取决于为带来一定满足要付出多少劳动,那么我们应该希望每英亩地少产玉米、每粒玉米少些营养——也就是希望土地贫瘠。因为土地越贫瘠,维持人口就需要越多土地、资本和劳动,于是对劳动的需求就越大。这样,布若、圣克里克、杜潘和达尔古诸位先生的愿望就实现了:面包贵、劳动多、法国富——至少是他们理解的那种富。巴斯夏讽刺这种“富”其实是让所有人更辛苦、更贫穷。
上下文
布若、圣克里克、杜潘都是当时法国主张保护主义的经济人物。巴斯夏在《经济诡辩》中把他们的逻辑推到荒谬结论。
今日一问
你是否曾把“多干活、多投入”本身当成好事,而不问最终产出是否值得?
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