告别施舍

• 韩

  2015-01-29
  尽管人们对于工业革命的通常印象是，它将原本快乐的农民变成了工厂里任人剥削的奴隶，但事实上，这种情景早在工业革命发生之前就出现了。
• 韩

  2015-01-19
  中国和日本之所以在同样的道路上没有英国发展的快，仅仅是因为在这两个国家夫人的生育能力只比总人口生育水平略高一点
• whig

  2013-02-16
  In contrast in England the majority of people, until quite close to 1800, lived in dwellings with beaten earth floors covered by rushes that were only infrequently renewed. Into these rushes went deposits of waste food, urine, and spit. Indeed the effluvium deposited on floors from ordinary household business was so rich that, when saltpeter men were empowered in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to dig out the earth floors as rich sources of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), they allegedly dug up not just barn floors but also the floors of houses.
• 礼小依

  2012-11-12
  经济史带来的最后一个出人意料的现象就是，物质的极大丰富、儿童死亡率的降低、成人寿命周期的延长以及收入分配不均现象的减少并没有使我们变得比狩猎一采集时期的祖先们更快乐。高收入深刻改变了现代发达社会里人们的生活方式。但财富并没有带来快乐。这就是为什么虽然如今富国和穷国之间的收入差距十分巨大，但穷国自我报告的幸福感却只比富国稍微低一点的原因，尽管穷国的国民可以通过电视这种媒介亲身了解到富国人们的生活。