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弗朗西斯·培根《随笔》· Essays · 领导 · 健康 · 财富 · 成长
It is likewise to be remembered, that forasmuch as the increase of any estate must be upon the foreigner (for whatsoever is somewhere gotten, is somewhere lost), there be but three things, which one nation selleth unto another; the commodity as nature yieldeth it; the manufacture; and the vecture, or carriage. So that if these three wheels go, wealth will flow as in a spring tide. And it cometh many times to pass, that materiam superabit opus; that the work and carriage is more worth than the material, and enricheth a state more; as is notably seen in the Low-Countrymen, who have the best mines above ground, in the world.
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定位:Excerpt 24 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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国家的财富增长只能来自对外贸易,因为一国所得必为他国所失。对外贸易只有三样东西:天然物产、工业制成品和运输服务。这三样运转起来,财富就会像春潮一样涌来。而且常常是加工和运输比原材料更值钱,更能富国,比如低地国家(荷兰)就靠加工和运输成为世界上最富的‘地上矿藏’。所以,要富国,就应发展制造业和航运业,而不只是卖原料。
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培根《随笔》论帝国伟大之处,17世纪初英国重商主义兴起,荷兰靠商贸致富。
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今天我们的经济是否过于依赖原料出口,而忽视了加工和服务的增值?
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