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我们的经济目标是什么?更多物质产品?人人上得起大学?更多的休闲时光?全民医保?更低的税率,更多的福利?公平?健康、可持续的自然环境?老有所养?幸福?经济王国中没有穿衣服的国王无论在工作、学习或娱乐时,我们都可能接触过测量单位。本书的作者之一戴维·巴特克在成为经济学家之前曾经是一名地质学家。他转而研究经济学,只因为有一天,在华盛顿州森特勒利亚煤矿工作时,他随手掰了一块煤,不禁想到:“如何衡量煤炭的经济价值呢?”煤炭具有很多特性,但没有一个测量单位能够衡量它的所有特性。例如,煤炭产生的热量由英国热量单位(BTUs)来衡量;煤炭的回收成本及
What are our economic goals? More material products? Everyone can afford college? More leisure time? Universal health insurance? Lower tax rates, more benefits? Fairness? Healthy, sustainable natural environment? What kind of happiness? King of the kingdom of the economic kingdom, no matter in work, study or entertainment, we may have come into contact with the measurement unit. David Butter, one of the authors of the book, was a geologist before becoming an economist. Turning to economics, he simply broke a piece of coal just one day while working at the Centralia mine in Washington State: “How to measure the economic value of coal?” There are many characteristics of coal , But no unit of measurement measures all of its features. For example, the heat generated by coal is measured by BTUs; the recovery costs of coal and