终极价值标准__EUGEN BOHM__BAWERK.pdf

英文名著3000 本 The Ultimate Standard of Value 1 英文名著3000 本 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science volume 5, (1894-95), pp. 149-208 by Eugen Bohm-Bawerk translated by C.W. Macfarlane There are certain unsettled questions in economic theory that have been handed down as a sort of legacy from one generation to another. The discussion of these questions is revived twenty or it may be a hundred times in the course of a decade, and each time the disputants exhaust their intellectual resources in the endeavor to impress their views upon their contemporaries. Not unfrequently the discussion is carried far beyond the limits of weariness and satiety, so that it may well be regarded as an offence against good taste to again recur to so well- worn a theme. And yet these questions return again and again, like troubled spirits doomed restlessly to wander until the hour of their deliverance shall appear. It may be 2 英文名著3000 本 that since the last discussion of the question we have made some real or fancied discoveries in the science, and some may think that these throw new light upon the old question. Instantly the old strife breaks forth anew, with the same liveliness as if it possessed the charm of entire novelty, and so it continues year after year, and will continue, until the troubled spirit is at last set free. In this class we find the question -- What is the ultimate standard of value, (dem letzten Bestimmgrunde des Wertes der Guter)?