文明的价格：唤醒美国的美德与繁荣（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.

超过三十余年，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，他将目光投回了美国本土。这本书是每个美国人都必须阅读的重要读物。 萨克斯以坚定、激昂且个人化的语气提出了对美国经济困境的刻骨和犀利诊断，并向美国人发出了紧急呼吁，要求他们恢复公平、诚实与远见作为国家繁荣基础的美德。 在经济危机中，他像在全球各地应对过许多次危机一样，用独特的诊断技能审视了美国经济的问题所在。他发现两党政治以及多数经济学家都忽视了大局，提供了一些缺乏深度解决方案，比如通过刺激支出或减税来解决复杂经济问题。萨克斯认为我们严重低估了全球化对我们的长期影响，这种影响导致就业、收入、贫困和环境等方面面临着深刻且尚未解决的挑战。萨克斯认为美国最大的经济失败是无法应对新全球经济现实的能力。然而，萨克斯不仅从经济学角度提出了批评。他采用了一种广泛的综合方法——审视国内政治、地缘政治、社会心理学以及自然环境等等——揭示了当前危机背后更深层次的问题。他展示了华盛顿一直未能解决美国的经济需求；他描述了一个失去了道德基础的政治体系，在其中不断上升的竞选捐款和游说支出压倒了民众的声音；他还关注文化中的危机，一个被过度消费主义驱动且在财富追逐过程中缺乏社会信任、诚实和同情心的民众群体。最后，萨克斯提出了一个扭转危机的方法。他有说服力地表明问题并非源于美国悠久的价值观——这些价值观仍然慷慨而务实，而是政治宣传与消费者主义轻而易举地超越了这些价值观。他邀请读者重新找回作为公民的责任感以及对经济和彼此的正视，并且每个人都应该接受文明的价格，以便我们可以一同恢复美国的伟大承诺。 《文明的价格》是一部繁荣之路的地图，它是基于美国最深层的价值观以及21世纪世界经济的一套严格理解。

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