分类目录归档：Economics in One Lesson

The Blessings of Destruction 第3章  战祸之福 So we have finished with the broken window. An elementary fallacy. Anybody, one would think, would be able to avoid it after a few moments’ thought. Yet the broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, … 继续阅读 →

第9章 遣散军队和裁减公务员 （接前面部分） 2 The same reasoning applies to civilian government officials whenever they are retained in excessive numbers and do not perform services for the community reasonably equivalent to the remuneration they receive. Yet whenever any effort is made … 继续阅读 →

Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats 第9章 遣散军队和裁减公务员 WHEN, AFTER EVERY great war, it is proposed to demobilize the armed forces, there is always a great fear that there will not be enough jobs for these forces and that in consequence they … 继续阅读 →

2008年10 月10日，一位美国读者在Economics in One Lesson（《一课经济学》）图书网购处留言到，“我昨天刚读完，爱不释手，急着与同事们分享。这本书每个人念中学的时候都该是必读。它谈到了最低工资法、房租管制、充分就业、稳定物价等许多与民生息息相关的经济问题。尤其是‘抨击储蓄’那一章，正中时下次贷危机和金融动荡的要害……”。 《一课经济学》第一版于1946年推出，那时正值罗斯福新政成效卓著的年代。第二版于1979年推出，一课经济学所阐述的政府干预经济的教训被一一应验。 1992年，98高龄的作者黑兹利特还写了一篇的文章，而当年，该书英文版销量已经突破100万册。针对那些广为流传的经济理论或学说中存在的谬误，黑兹利特进行了毫不留情的揭露、批驳，从而帮助社会大众更了解经济世界运作的法则。本书以浅显的文字取代了高深的经济学术语与复杂的公式，为经济学入门提供了一种最为迅捷和有效的方式。该书利用经济生活中的实例，从经济学中最基本的问题讲起，一直讲到最复杂最艰深的问题。我们会借助这些例证，先学会如何察觉和避开那些最粗浅最明显的谬误，直至学会发现和避开那些最复杂最难以捉摸的谬误。 “一课”说来很简单，也就是经济学的首要教训。教训是一句话就说完了。对于不守教训的政府干预经济的政策，要一条条批下去，这样才能让人醒豁。 希望有一天Henry Hazlitt这本《一课经济学》，跟物理、化学并列科学教材，作为中学生的必修课。 附：中文版v200807.pdf 中英文对照版v20090305.doc 中英文对照v200907 了解奥地利学派的出发点对于把握本书很有帮助，即：  如果尊重个人的自由选择，一项公共政策很难有把握去激发人们的“利他心理”；反之，致力于激发人们“利他心理”的公共政策，很容易滑向限制个人的自由选择。 分工与协作，往往可以让自己以更小的投入获得更大的回报，这是符合“利己心理”的。分工与协作带来了人与人之间的依赖性和难以替代性，为了利己，每个人会权衡得失，并作出取舍。 可见，极度的自由主义经济学必须被放到分工与协作中去考察才行。至于公权在禁止暴力和欺诈方面的作用，那肯定是不可或缺的。 至于限制国家行政权力和司法权力滥用对公民基本权利的侵害，宪法要能为公民所用，同样是不可或缺的。  

第24章 抨击储蓄 （接前面部分） 3 The enemies of saving are not through. They begin by drawing a distinction, which is proper enough, between “savings” and “investment.” But then they start to talk as if the two were independent variables and as … 继续阅读 →

The Assault on Saving 第24章 抨击储蓄 From time immemorial proverbial wisdom has taught the virtues of saving, and warned against the consequences of prodigality and waste. This proverbial wisdom has reflected the common ethical as well as the merely prudential … 继续阅读 →

第23章 通货膨胀的幻景 （接前面部分） 5 The more sophisticated advocates of inflation, in brief, are disingenuous. They do not state their case with complete candor; and they end by deceiving even themselves. They begin to talk of paper money, like the more … 继续阅读 →

第23章 通货膨胀的幻景 （接前面部分） 3 So inflation turns out to be merely one more example of our central lesson. It may indeed bring benefits for a short time to favored groups, but only at the expense of others. And in the … 继续阅读 →

The Mirage of Inflation 第23章 通货膨胀的幻景 I have found it necessary to warn the reader from time to time that a certain result would necessarily follow from a certain policy “provided there is no inflation.” In the chapters on public … 继续阅读 →

第三篇 三十年后的这堂课 第26章 三十年后的这堂课 （接前面部分） If we go through the chapters of this book seriatim, we find practically no form of government intervention deprecated in the first edition that is not still being pursued, usually with increased obstinacy. Governments everywhere … 继续阅读 →