The Future of Capitalism-行业好书-社会科学-太极之巅书单号

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内容简介

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now.

In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession.

Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.

作品目录

Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of The Bottom Billion, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations, The Plundered Planet, Exodus and Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Collier has served as Director of the Research Department of the World Bank, and consults with the German and many other governments around the world.
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作者简介

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier），英国著名经济学家，牛津大学经济学和公共政策教授，前世界银行发展研究部门主任，英国政府顾问，曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖、克林纳国际书卷奖、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖、埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖等。著有《最底层的10亿人》《战争、枪炮与选票》《难民》等。2010年和2011年被《外交政策》杂志评为“全球顶尖思想家”。

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整个过程中，所有人只是在努力把自己获得的尊重最大化。但由于经济的结构性变化，一道裂痕出现了。高技能水平者把突出的身份改成了自己的工作。……“工作很有成就感，已经与身份密交织在一起。”同时，受教育程度较低、自身工作较缺乏成就感的人会继续突出国籍，但开始感到被边缘化。因为自鸣得意的高技能水平者比被边缘化者得到更多尊重，所以他们热衷于向其他人表明他们的确更突出自己的技能身份。我们现在可以利用迈克尔・斯宾塞的信息传递理论中的一项重要洞见来预测他们将如何突出这种身份。为了让别人相信我已选择放弃将国籍作为我的突出身份，我需要做一些在未放弃的情况下不会做的事：我需要贬低国家。这有助于解释为什么社会精英频繁地贬低自己的国家他们是在寻求尊重。这能把他们与社会地位较低的人清楚地分开。通过退出共同的国家认同，他们减少了继续认同国家者得到的尊重，所以别人对他们产生怨恨就不足为奇了。我希望你会觉得这里的一些描述很眼熟。——《资本主义的未来》P57

——引自章节：第三章道德的国家

学校里最重要的活动不是教学，而是同学群体内的互动。学校在社会构成方面的差异，会复制和放大最初的家庭间差异。硅谷人土认为他们的科技为低受教育程度家庭的孩子打开了知识世界，但事实与他们的期望恰好相反：互联网扩大而不是缩小了机会方面的差距。现在所有人都能上网，但近期的研究显示，受教育程度高的家庭的孩子学会利用互联网来扩展知识，而低受教育程度家庭的孩子则用互联网来消遺。

——引自章节：第八章阶层分化：享有一切的家庭，分崩离析的家庭