Ilove movies, television and novels, but I become depressed at the persistently negative image of business portrayed in so much fictional drama. Writers and film makers, in works ranging from Hard Times to Avatar, always seem to make corporations and their bosses the bad guys. And in the past six years a whole academic genre has sprouted up, churning out books claiming that the current capitalist system is broken – recent British additions being Geoff Mulgan’s The Locust and the Bee and father-and-son team Robert and Edward Skidelsky’s How Much Is Enough?
我喜歡電影、電視和小說，但衆多虛構故事中所描寫的一貫負面的企業形象，讓我感到沮喪。作家和電影製作者似乎總是把企業及其老闆刻畫成壞人，這些作品從《艱難時世》(Hard Times)到《阿凡達》(Avatar)，不一而足。過去6年，一大批搞學術的冒了出來，他們紛紛出書宣稱當前的資本主義制度已經失敗。最近，英國的兩本著作也加入其中，它們是傑夫•馬爾根(Geoff Mulgan)所著的《蝗蟲和蜜蜂》(The Locust and the Bee)，以及羅伯特•斯基德爾斯基(Robert Skidelsky)與愛德華•斯基德爾斯基(Edward Skidelsky)父子所著的《多少算夠？》(How Much Is Enough？)。
