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书籍介绍
这本书最见功力的地方，是它拒绝把'穷'简单归咎于懒惰或愚昧，而是逼读者去追问：为什么有些文明明明掌握了技术，却主动把它埋没、甚至倒退？作者借'李约瑟难题'式的追问切入，把财富与贫穷放进地理、宗教、制度、文化的长链条里考察，而非停留在政策对错表层。它适合那些不满足于'制度决定一切'这类简洁答案、愿意接受一部结构松散、论证时有草率、却仍肯花力气拼出大图景的读者。它不是工具书，更像一场关于'我们如何走到今天'的长篇思辨——读它，你会习惯用'为什么'而非'应该'去打量世界的贫富落差。
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核心看点
- 批判发展斯密观点，多层面分析国家兴衰。
- 融合地理历史科技宗教，探寻财富创造根源。
- 提出人自然社会协调发展新路，吸取历史教训。
读者共识
- 宏观视野宏大，对大图景把握极好，见解新颖。
- 结构混乱且缺乏总结，阅读体验累，执行粗糙。
- 翻译质量尚可，但被指有删节，观点显得散乱。
精彩摘录
- "“但对我来说，相对于善心而言，我更钟爱事实。”"
- "曾经有可能超越欧洲成就的惟一文明是中国。至少，历史记载似乎反映了这一点。看一看中国发明的长名单就够了：独轮推车、马镫、硬马轭（预防窒息）、指南针、造纸、印刷、火药、陶瓷。然而，在技术和科学方面，中国仍然是一个谜一一尽管已故世的李约瑟和其他人作了大量信息收集的工作来澄清这个问题。例如，这些专家指出，中国的工业比欧洲要早得多；在纺织业上，中国在12世纪时己经用水力驱动的机械纺麻纤维，比英国工业革命知道水力纺纱机和走锭精纺机早500年，而在冶铁方面，我们被告知，中国早就懂得使用煤块和焦炭作为燃料，在风炉里熔解铁块，到11世纪末中国已年产125000吨生铁一700年之后英国才达到这个标准。谜在于中国未"
- "Too much bathing was seen as a sign of dirtiness. Why would clean people have to wash so ofter? No matter. Personal hygiene changed drastically, so that commoners of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century often lived clearner than the kings and queens of a century earlier."
- "Gains to knowledge have not been evenly distributed, even within rich nations. We live in a world of inequality and diversity. This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; ant those whose people d"
- "The old division of the world into two powper blocs, East and West, has subsided. Now the big challenge and threat is the gap in wealth and health that separates rich and poor. These are ofter styled North and South, because the division is geographic; but a more accurate signifier would be the West"
- "I propose to approach these problems historically...But I do so also because the best way to understand a problem is to ask: How and why did we get where we are? How did the rich countries get so rich? Why are the poor countries so poor?"
- "When Harvard simply abolished its geography department after World War II, hardly a voice protested- outside the small group of those dismissed. Subsequently a string of leading universities- Michigan, Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia- followed suit, again without serious objection."
- "Every French grammar school student used to learn the story of the vase of Soissons, a beautiful object robbed from a church by the Franks in war against the Gauls. The chief Clovis wanted to return it, by way of giving pleasure to a Christian woman who had won his fancy, but the soldier who had tak"
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