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引用 菲德尔 2010-9-21 14:23

MANY people complain that conventional measures of GDP fail to capture a country’s true standard of living. But their attempts to improve on these conventional metrics are ad hoc. Charles Jones and Peter Klenow of Stanford University propose a new measure of standards of living based on a simple thought experiment: if you were reborn as a random member of another country, how much could you expect to consume, in goods and leisure, over the course of your life? America, for example, has a higher GDP per person than France. But Americans also tend to work longer hours and live shorter lives. They also belong to a less equal society. If you assume that people do not know what position in society they will occupy, and that they dislike being poor more than they like being rich, they should prefer more egalitarian societies, everything else equal. For these reasons, the authors calculate that France and America have about the same standard of living.
很多人抱怨说传统的GDP测量标准无法准确反映各国真实的生活水平。但他们在改善这些传统测量标准方面做得并不够。斯坦福大学的Charles Jones和Peter Klenow两人基于一项简单的思维试验提出了一种新的生活水平衡量方法：如果你随机重生于另外一个国家，你对一生中所能享用的物品与休闲有多少的期待呢？比如，美国的人均GDP高于法国，但是美国人要工作更长时间并且寿命较短。他们也处于一个非平等的社会。如果我们假设人们无法预知他们社会中能获得怎样地位，并且他们嫌贫爱富，那么他们或许会偏好更加平等的社会----那里人人平等。基于这些原因，两位作者认为法国与美国的生活水平相当。

引用 sailor 2010-9-21 22:09

本帖最后由 sailor 于 2010-9-21 22:11 编辑

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ad hoc这个地方感觉你处理的更加到位。
if you were reborn as a random member of another country, how much could you expect to consume, in goods and leisure, over the course of your life?
译文：如果你随机重生于另外一个国家，你对一生中所能享用的物品与休闲有多少的期待呢？
你这样译表面上看起来很忠实，其实不然，译文的意思与原文有出入，你可以再理解一下！
“assume”译为“认为”和“假设”都是可以的。

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