提勃尔的文化经济学思想

Tibor Scitovsky's Thoughts on Cultural Economics

继凯恩斯之后,提勃尔是为数不多地思考经济问题解决之后人们如何过上快乐生活的经济学家。在解答这个问题时,提勃尔引入心理学清晰地辨析这个问题的症结,并结合自身的经验将文化作为解决之道,这不仅有利于纠正正统经济学的理性主义偏执,而且为正在发展中的文化经济学提供了不可多得的学术富矿。更为重要的是,当我们"不是作为经济学家,而是消费者"时,凯恩斯的"天问"会让我们所有人都反思我们自身的生活方式,并有可能开始改变现实,而提勃尔所提出的"文化是个好东西"无疑是我们着手改变可供选择的重要方式之一。

Tibor Scitovsky is one of the few economists after Maynard Keynes who asked such a question as how our human being would like to live a happy life after economic problem has been solved.Tibor introduces psychology to illuminate the crux of this problem,and provides a solution based on his own experience,which not only helps to correct the rationalist bigotry of traditional economics,but also provides a rare academic bonanza for the developing cultural economics.When we are“not taken as economists,but as consumers,”his question makes us rethink of our way of life and may start to change,and his remark that“culture is a good stuff”is undoubtedly one of the important ways we can choose.