国富国穷

[美] 戴维·S. 兰德斯

出版时间

2001-01-01

ISBN

9787501151103

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
《国富国穷》批判和发展了亚当·斯密《国富论》的基本观点,将地理、历史、科技、哲学、宗教、国际政治和传统文化等因素揉合在一起,多层面地分析了财富创造、国家兴衰更替的根本原因,提出人类应该吸取历史教训,创造性地走出一条“人-自然-社会”协调发展的新路。
AI导读
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。
适合谁读
  • 对经济史、大国崛起及全球发展差异感兴趣的读者。
  • 希望从多维视角理解贫富差距与文明演进的读者。
  • 芒格推荐书单爱好者及宏观历史思维探索者。
读前提醒
  • 全书结构松散,缺乏系统总结,需自行梳理逻辑。
  • 作者写作随性,部分论证草率,细节严谨性不足。
  • 内容庞杂涉及面广,建议结合其他著作对比阅读。
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。

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。

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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