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
外语
But the mere justice that is implied in exchange is certainly only formal and relative; any one person should have neither more
But the mere justice that is implied in exchange is certainly only formal and relative; any one person should have neither more
admin
2013-03-27
92
问题
But the mere justice that is implied in exchange is certainly only formal and relative; any one person should have neither more nor less than any other. Over and above that, exchange brings about an increase in the absolute number of values experienced. Since everybody offers for exchange only what is relatively useless to him, and accepts in exchange what is relatively necessary, exchange effects a continuously growing utilization of the values wrested from nature at any given time. If the world were really "given away" and as activity consisted only in the mere moving back and forth of an objectively unalterable quantity of values, then exchange would nevertheless produce, as it were, an intercellular growth of values. The objectively stable sum of values changes through a more useful distribution, effected by exchange, into a subjectively larger amount and higher measure of uses experienced. This is the great cultural task of every new distribution of rights and duties, which always implies an exchange. Even in the case of an apparently quite one-sided transfer of advantages, a truly social procedure will not disregard them. Thus, for example, it was essential during the liberation of peasants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries not only to ensure that the landowners forfeited what the peasants were supposed to gain, but also to find a mode of distributing property and rights which enlarged the total amount of utilities.
There are two qualities of money that, in this respect, suggest that the exchange of goods or services is best served by money: its divisibility and its unlimited convertibility. The former ensures that an objective equivalence between service and its return can take place. Natural objects can seldom be so determined and scaled in value that their exchange has to be accepted as completely just by both parties. Only money—because it is nothing but the representation of the value of other objects, and because there is almost no limit to its divisibility and accretion—provides the technical possibility for the exact equivalence of exchange values. However, this represents only the first stage in the progressive development away from the one-sidedness of exchange of ownership. The second quality of money derives from the fact that exchange in kind seldom gives both parties the desired object to an equal extent or is able to release them from equally superfluous ones. As a role, the more lively desire will be on the side of one party to the transaction while the other party will enter into the exchange only by being forced to do so or where they receive a disproportionately high compensation for doing so. In the case of the exchange of services or benefits against money, however, one party receives the object that they especially need while the other receives something that anyone in general desires. Because of the boundless usefulness and therefore its permanent desirability, every exchange becomes, at least in principle, equally advantageous to both parties. The one who takes the object will certainly do so only if he needs it at this point in time; the person who takes money will accept it because he can use it at any time. Exchange against money makes possible an increase in satisfaction for both parties, whereas with exchange in kind it is frequently the case that only one party will have a specific interest in the acquisition or disposal of the object. Thus exchange against money is so far the most perfect form of solution of the great cultural problem that evolves from the one-sided advantage of exchange of possessions, namely, to raise the objectively given amount of value to a greater amount of subjectively experienced values merely through the change in its owners. This, alongside the original creation of values, is clearly the task of social expediency as part of the general human task; to set free a maximum of the latent value that lies in the form that we give to the contents of life. Wherever we see money serving this purpose, the technical role of money also reveals that exchange is the essential social mode of solving this problem and that exchange itself is embodied in money.
This article suggests______.
选项
A、money has intrinsic value
B、money has no intrinsic value
C、money causes other objects to lose their value
D、money gives other objects their value
答案
B
解析
根据第二段的“Natural objects can seldom…exact equivalence of exchangevalues.”可知,在自然客体中,能如此确定或可用价值来衡量的情况很少。只有货币——因为它仅仅代表了其他客体的价值,还因为它几乎无限的可分性和累积性——为交换价值的准确和平等提供了技术上的可能性。据此可知,文中暗示出货币本身没有价值,B项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pVmO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Seventeen-year-oldQuantaeWilliamsdoesn’tunderstandwhytheU.S.SupremeCourtstruckdownhisschooldistrict’sracialdive
Theweathermanbroadcaststhe______intemperaturetwiceaday.
Whenamemberofanethnicminoritygroupacquiresthebehaviorpatterns,lifestyles,values,andlanguageofthemainstreamcul
Whenamemberofanethnicminoritygroupacquiresthebehaviorpatterns,lifestyles,values,andlanguageofthemainstreamcul
Forlaymenethnologyisthemostinterestingofthebiologicalsciencesfortheveryreasonthatitconcernsanimalsintheirno
Oneofthemajordifferencesbetweenmanandhisclosestlivingrelativeis,ofcourse,thatthechimpanzeehasnotdevelopedthe
Itisappropriateonananniversaryofthefoundingofauniversitytoremindourselvesofitspurposes.Itisequallyappropri
Vitaminsareagroupofsubstancesfoundinfood.Thebodyneedsthemforlifeandhealth.Sonaturally,manypeopleareconcern
ThementalhealthmovementintheUnitedStatesbeganwithaperiodofconsiderableenlightenment.DorotheaDixwasshockedto
Technologyisatwo-edgedsword.Rarelyisthisasclearasitisintherealmofhealthcare.Technologyallowsdoctorstotest
随机试题
()位于按钮右侧,用于放置常用程序的快捷方式图标。
作为群体的一个显著标志,就是群体内的成员应具有()
透视检查的优点不包括
关于压实度说法,错误的有()。
在计算机存储器中,存储英文字母“A”时,存储的是它的()。
会员制期货交易所的权力机构是股东大会,公司制期货交易所的权利机构是会员大会。()
待开发房地产价值=开发完成后的房地产价值-开发成本-管理费用-销售费用-投资利息-销售税费-开发利润-()。
关于产品质量担保责任制度,下列叙述正确的有()。
在社会救助社会工作中,要注重人的发展,包括居民公民意识的提升、参与意识的培养、解决贫困问题能力的提高等。这体现了社会救助社会工作采用社区工作方法时要遵循()原则。
2011年,规模以上工业主营业务收入达到84.2万亿元,比2002年增长6.7倍;资产总计达到67.6万亿元,增长3.6倍;利润总额达到6.1万亿元,增长9.6倍。主要工业产品规模扩张迅速。2011年微型计算机产量达到3.2亿台,比2002年增长20.9倍
最新回复
(
0
)