Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, is concerned that gross domestic product, the most popular yardstick of economic performance, does not capture how well societies (in particular, no doubt, France) are doing. Uncharitable souls may think he set up his commission on measuring “social progress” mainly to kick Anglo-Saxon capitalism while it was down. In fact, its report is full of sensible, if old, insights.
法國總統尼古拉•薩科吉(Nicolas Sarkozy)擔心,衡量經濟表現最通行的指標——國內生產毛額(GDP)——無法切實體現社會(毫無疑問,特別是法國社會)的運行狀況。刻薄之輩或許會以爲,薩科吉組建衡量「社會進步」委員會,主要動機是給盎格魯-撒克遜資本主義來個落井下石。事實上,該委員會報告中的許多見解雖算不得新穎,卻堪稱明智。
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