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Cowboy or spaceman? A dilemma for a children’s party, perhaps. But also a question for economists, argued Kenneth Boulding, a Br
Cowboy or spaceman? A dilemma for a children’s party, perhaps. But also a question for economists, argued Kenneth Boulding, a Br
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Cowboy or spaceman? A dilemma for a children’s party, perhaps. But also a question for economists, argued Kenneth Boulding, a British economist, in an essay published in 1966. 【F1】
We have run our economies, he warned, like cowboys on the open grassland: taking and using the world’s resources, confident that more lies over the horizon.
But the Earth is less a grassland than a spaceship—a closed system, alone in space, carrying finite supplies. We need, said Boulding, an economics that takes seriously the idea of environmental limits. In the half century since his essay, a new movement has responded to his challenge. 【F2】
"Ecological economists", as they call themselves, do not want to revolutionise at the margins of economics, but to revolutionise its aims and assumptions.
What do they say—and will their ideas achieve lift-off?
To its practitioners, their starting point is to recognise that the human economy is part of the natural world. Our environment, they note, is both a source of resources and a sink for wastes. 【F3】
But it is ignored in conventional textbooks, where neat diagrams trace the flows between firms, households and the government as though nature did not exist.
That is a mistake, say ecological economists.
They are suspicious of GDP, a crude measure which does not take account of resource depletion, unpaid work, and countless other factors. 【F4】
In its place they advocate more holistic approaches (整体分析法 ), such as the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)(真是发展指数), a composite index that includes things like the cost of pollution, deforestation and car accidents.
While GDP has kept growing, global GPI per person peaked in 1978: by destroying our environment we are making ourselves poorer, not richer.
Mainstream economists are unimpressed. The GPI, they point out, is a subjective measure. And talk of limits to growth has had a bad press since the days of Thomas Malthus, a gloomy 18th century cleric who predicted, wrongly, that overpopulation would lead to famine. Human ingenuity finds solutions to some of the most annoying problems. But ecological economists warn against self-satisfaction. In 2009 a paper in Nature, a scientific journal, argued that human activity is already overstepping safe planetary boundaries on issues such as biodiversity and climate change. 【F5】
That suggests that ecological economists are at least asking some important questions, even if their answers turn out to be wrong.
It may be no bad thing if economics became a little more Neil Armstrong, and a little less Jesse James.
【F2】
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答案
这项运动的发起者们自称为“生态经济学家”,他们不是想要提出一些仅能成为经济学边缘理论的变革主张,而是要彻底变革经济学的目标和众多猜想。
解析
①本句为简单句。主干为主谓宾结构。主干主语和谓语之间的as they call themselves结构是插入语成分,说明“Ecological economists”这一称谓的来源。②not…but…结构连接两个并列的不定式结构,作want的宾语。
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