全球化

Gillian Tett: Look back to judge chances of a global future
從一個世紀前的轉折,看當下全球化的生機

Maybe it’s time to dust off John Maynard Keynes’s warning about taking borderless prosperity for granted
邰蒂:也許應該重讀凱恩斯,認識到我們不能把全球化當作是理所當然的,雖然從指標來看,全球化絕對還沒有死。

Just over a century ago, John Maynard Keynes lamented the dangers of being complacent about globalisation. In 1919, in his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes noted that, before the recently ended first world war, “the inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep.”

一個世紀多一點以前,約翰•梅納德•凱恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)曾經哀嘆,對全球化抱著自滿心態是危險的。1919年,凱恩斯在《和平的經濟後果》(The Economic Consequences of the Peace)這本書中指出,在剛剛結束的第一次世界大戰以前,「倫敦人可以一邊坐在牀上啜著早茶,一邊打電話訂購世界各地出產的各種東西,他儘可以想訂多少就訂多少,並且有理由期待這些東西會被及早送到他家。」

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