首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
职业资格
The medical community owes economists a great deal. Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998. He has spent hi
The medical community owes economists a great deal. Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998. He has spent hi
admin
2015-03-27
54
问题
The medical community owes economists a great deal. Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1998. He has spent his entire career promulgating ideas of justice and freedom, with health rarely out of his gaze. Joseph Stiglitz won a Noble in 2001. In 1998, when he was chief economist at the (then) notoriously regressive World Bank, he famously challenged the Washington Consensus. And Jeff Sachs, a controversial figure to some critics, can fairly lay claim to the enormous achievement of putting health at the center of the Millennium Development Goals. His "Commission on Macroeconomics and Health" was a landmark report, providing explicit evidence to explain why attacking disease was absolutely necessary if poverty was to be eradicated. And I must offer my own personal gratitude to a very special group of economists—Larry Summers, Dean Jamison, Kenneth Arrow, David Evans, and Sanjeev Gupta. They were the economic team that drove the work of Global Health 2035.
But although we might be kind to economists, perhaps we should be tougher on the discipline of economics itself. For economics has much to answer for. Pick up any economics textbook, and you will see the priority given to markets and efficiency, price and utility, profit and competition. These words have chilling effects on our quest for better health. They seem to marginalize those qualities of our lives that we value most of all—not our self-interest, but our humanity; not the costs and benefits of monetary exchange, but vision and ideals that guide our decisions. It was these issues that were addressed at last week’s Global Health Lab, held at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Anne Mills, Vice-Director of the School, fervently argued the case in favor of economists. It was they who contributed to understanding the idea of "best-buys" in global health. It was economists who challenged user fees. And it was economists who made the connection between health and economic growth, providing one of the most compelling political arguments for taking health seriously. Some economists might adore markets, but not health economists, she said. "Health care is different." For her kind of economist, a health system is a "social institution that embodies the values of society".
Although competition has a part to play in health, it should be used judiciously as a mechanism to improve the quality of care. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK’s Department for International Development, expressed his contempt for those who profess indifference to economics. Economics is about the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Anyone who backed the inefficient allocation of resources is "immoral". He did criticize economists for their arrogance, though. Economists seemed to believe their ideas should be accepted simply because of the authority they held as economists. Economics, he said, is only one science among many that policy makers have to take into account. But Clare Chandler, a medical anthropologist, took a different view. She asked, what has neoliberal economics ever done for global health? Her answer, in one word, was "inequality". Neoliberal economics frames the way we think and act. Her argument suggested that any economic philosophy that put a premium on free trade, privatization, minimal government, and reduced public spending on social and health sectors is a philosophy bereft of human virtue. The discussion that followed, led by Martin McKee, posed difficult questions. Why do economists pay such little attention to inequality? Why do economists treat their theories like religions? Why are economists so silent on their own failures? Can economics ever be apolitical? There were few satisfactory answers to these questions.
Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude toward economists?
选项
A、Contempt.
B、Reservation.
C、Detachment.
D、Endorsement.
答案
C
解析
作者对经济学家的态度是比较客观的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DrCv777K
本试题收录于:
英语学科知识与教学能力题库教师资格分类
0
英语学科知识与教学能力
教师资格
相关试题推荐
英国首相布莱尔说:“长期以来不干涉主义一直被视为国际秩序中一项重要的原则,但不干涉主义原则,必须在一些重要方面加以限定:国家主权和防止种族灭绝的重要。”基于此理论,美英于1999年轰炸南联盟,2003年发动伊拉克战争体现了这一理论的核心是()。
当今经济全球化是与知识经济,尤其是信息技术相适应的。20世纪90年代中期,知识经济首先在美国出现,以下说法不正确的是()。
Ateacherhandedoutalistoftwenty"if"sentencesandaskedstudentstodiscussandfindoutthegrammaticalrules.What’sth
Popularasitmightbe,thePresentation-Practice-Productionteachingmodelisnotconsideredappropriateinteaching______.
Whichofthefollowingisanexampleofteachers’indirectcorrectivefeedback?
Wehadtobepatientbecauseit______sometime______wegotthefullresults.
TheBritishMedicalJournalrecentlyfeaturedastrongresponsetowhatwasjudgedaninappropriatelylenientreactionbyamedi
—Ibegyoutoquitsmoking.Ican’treally______thatsmell.—I’mextremelysorrytohearthat.
Therelationshipbetweenformaleducationandeconomicgrowthinpoorcountriesiswidelymisunderstoodbyeconomistsandpoliti
随机试题
微分方程y〞-3y′+2y=2eχ满足=1的特解为_______.
根据《建设工程工程量清单计价规范》(GB50500—2013),在招标文件未另有要求的情况下,投标报价的综合单价一般要考虑的风险因素是()。
背景资料某机电安装公司承建了某市医院的机电安装工程,内容包括:变配电所工程、建筑电气工程、通风与空调工程、给水排水工程和锅炉安装工程等。其中变配电所应提前受电为其建筑设备的试运转等提供条件。分承包合同约定:分承包工程的完工日期应与总体工程
背景某高速公路全长120km,设计行车速度100km/h,双向四车道。其中有一座分离式隧道,隧道左线起讫桩号为ZK2+815~ZK3+880,全长1065m;右线起讫桩号为YK2+840~YK3+750,全长910m。隧道最大埋深400m,隧道沿纵
监管部门参与市场约束的作用表现在()。
20世纪80年代以来,各国银行间的竞争日益激烈,而西方各国关于银行资本定义不统一,资本充足率也没有规范标准。1988年7月,美国、英国、法国、加拿大等12国的中央银行达成巴塞尔协议。根据上述资料,回答下列问题:巴塞尔协议规定商业银行的资本充足率最低标
调整平等主体的公民之间、法人之间、公民和法人之间的人身关系和财产关系的法律规范的总称为()。
软件生命周期可分为定义阶段、开发阶段和维护阶段,下面不属于开发阶段任务的是
Packagingisthedesignandproductionofphysicalcontainerforaproduct,whichinfactbecomesapartoftotalutilityofthe
Islanguage,likefood,abasichumanneedwithoutwhichachildatacriticalperiodoflifecanbestarvedanddamaged?Judgin
最新回复
(
0
)