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1、精品资料econimic-growth-is-not-prosperity-教师用书........................................精品资料Unit8TextAEconomicGrowthisaPathtoPerdition,NotProsperityI.Introduction1BackgroundThisisaninterestingessay.Itdealswithaconceptwithwhichweareonlytoofamiliar:GDP.Untilrecentlythishasbeenalmostournat
2、ionalobsession.Wehaveallbeenunitedtostriveforthisgoal,thegoalofraisingourGDP.Fordecades,ithasbeenthemeasurementofourachievement,andthesteadydouble-digitgrowthratehastransformedourcountryintoaworldeconomicpower.Ithasfilleduswithprideandhasearnedtheadmirationandenvyandaweofmanynatio
3、ns.ButnowtheauthorofthisarticletellsusthattherearealreadymanyseriousthinkerswhobelievethatthisobsessionofGDPiswrong.He........................................精品资料comparesthisideatoCharlesDarwin’stheoryofevolutionatatimewhenthedominatingmythwasitwasGodwhocreatedeverything.Cometothi
4、nkofit.GDPasanationalgoalindeedisarelativelyrecentturnofevents.Inourcountryithappenedonlyasaresultoftheopenandreformpolicy.Andtheunderliningtheorydoesseemtobesoundtoacertaindegree.OurexperienceshowsthathighGDPdoesequalmoreprofits,morejobs,moreofeverythingforourconsumption,andmorep
5、restige,power,andgloryforthenation.Buttheauthorofthisessaychallengesthisbasicassumption.First,hepointsoutthattheobsessionofGDPleadstomindlessconsumerism.Itresultsintheendlesschurningoutofproductswhichareunnecessaryanduseless(Hecouldhaveadded‘evenharmful’).Secondly,hearguesthatGDP-
6、orientedeconomyis........................................精品资料unsustainableandithasalreadydonegreatdamagetohumanenvironment.Thirdly,herefutestheassertionthathigherGDPisalwaysareliableindicationofgreaterwellbeingandhappiness.SpeakingasanAmerican,it’sinterestingthattheauthorexpresses
7、hisbeliefthatthisblindworshipofGDPisinherentlydeeplyrootedinthecapitalistsystembecausethatsystemisdominatedbythedesireformoreprofit,forwhichtherichwillleavenostoneunturned.TheauthorhereischallengingtheveryfoundationoftheAmericansociety.Ofcourse,inthisessayhehasneitherthespacenorin
8、tentiontogiveadetailedanalysis,le
