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GDP真那么重要么？19世纪的法国经济学家Bastiat告诉我们财富积累才是最重要的。
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is im-
mediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its causeit is seen. The others un-fold in successionthey are not seen: it is well for us, if they are foreseen. Between
a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole differencethe one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are
seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is
favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed
by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come,at the risk of a small present evil.
In fact, it is the same in the science of health, arts, and in that of morals. It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the
consequences. Take, for example, debauchery, idleness, prodigality. When, there-fore, a man absorbed in the effect which is seen has not yet learned to discern
those which are not seen, he gives way to fatal habits, not only by inclination, but by calculation.
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