走向可持续城市化的经济学

物质主义者对物质生产的偏见影响了对城市及其经济问题的思索。事实上,城市不仅仅是物质生产的中心,而且还是进行知识与精神方面交换的中心。如果不能意识到这种交换的多重维度,就会导致新的商业主义的复苏,制造商因此会享有特殊的权力,而财富的分配也会更加不平等。亨利·乔治的哲学为避免商业主义提供了一种很好的重新系统阐述基本原则的起始点。

Toward an Economics of Sustainable Urbanization

A materialist bias toward production of things influences thinking about cities and their economies. In fact, cities are centers of intellectual and spiritual exchange, not merely material production. Failure to recognize the many dimensions of exchange has led to the resurgence of a new kind of mercantilism, in which producers are granted special privileges and wealth distribution becomes more unequal. The philosophy of Henry George provides a good starting point for reformulation of fundamental principles to avoid mercantilism.