文明的价格：唤醒美国美德与繁荣（有声书）

2011 | English | B005SA5GAG | M4B 64 kbps | 9 hours and 44 minutes | 280 MB

For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.

As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities.Yet Sachs goes deeper than an economic diagnosis. By taking a broad, holistic approach—looking at domestic politics, geopolitics, social psychology, and the natural environment as well—Sachs reveals the larger fissures underlying our country’s current crisis. He shows how Washington has consistently failed to address America’s economic needs. He describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. He also looks at the crisis in our culture, in which an overstimulated and consumption-driven populace in a ferocious quest for wealth now suffers shortfalls of social trust, honesty, and compassion. Finally, Sachs offers a plan to turn the crisis around. He argues persuasively that the problem is not America’s abiding values, which remain generous and pragmatic, but the ease with which political spin and consumerism run circles around those values. He bids the reader to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and one another. Most important, he bids each of us to accept the price of civilization, so that together we can restore America to its great promise.

The Price of Civilization is a masterly road map for prosperity, founded on America’s deepest values and on a rigorous understanding of the twenty-first-century world economy.

超过三十年来，杰弗里·D·萨克斯一直致力于国际经济问题的解决。但在《文明的价格》一书中，萨克斯将目光投向了国内。这本书对每一个美国人来说都是必不可少的阅读材料。他以有力、激昂且充满个人情感的方式提出了一个深刻的诊断，指出了美国经济的弊端，并发出了急切呼吁：为了恢复公平、诚实和前瞻性的美德，这些美德是国家繁荣的基础，美国人民必须重建。 正如他在世界各地金融危机中所做的那样，萨克斯将他的独特诊断技巧用于美国经济的问题。他发现政治两党以及许多经济学家都未能看清问题的整体状况，他们提供的只是短期解决办法，比如刺激支出或减税来应对需要更深层次解决方案的复杂经济难题。萨斯认为我们严重低估了全球化对这个国家长期的影响，这导致了与就业、收入、贫困和环境有关的深刻且未得到满足的挑战。萨克斯指出，美国的最大经济失败在于它无法适应新的全球经济现实。 但萨克斯不仅进行了一次经济诊断。他采用了一个全面而综合的方法——考察国内政治、地缘政治、社会心理学以及自然环境等各个层面——揭示了我们国家当前危机中隐藏的大裂缝。他展示了华盛顿如何始终未能解决美国的经济需求，描述了一个失去道德锚点的政治体系，在此过程中，不断增加的竞选捐款和游说开支胜过了公民的声音。他也审视了我们的文化困境，即在一个狂热追求财富的消费驱动社会中，现在的美国人正面临信任、诚实和平等感方面的匮乏。 最后，萨克斯提出了一个应对危机的方法。他有说服力地指出问题并非源于美国永恒的价值观——这些价值观仍然慷慨和务实——而是政治宣传和消费主义轻松超越了那些价值观。他呼吁读者回归好的公民身份意识和对经济与彼此之间的关注。最重要的是，他要求我们每个人都要接受文明的代价，这样我们才能共同努力恢复美国的伟大承诺。 《文明的价格》是一份繁荣蓝图，基于美国最深的价值观以及21世纪世界经济的严谨理解。

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