Promoting the growth of high quality goods and the phasing out of shoddy products
Promoting the growth of high quality goods and the phasing out of shoddy products
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10.1504/ijge.2011.042553
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2011-09
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Peter A. Lang
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Peter A. Lang
传统的经济增长实际上衡量的是吞吐量，而不是积累的财富，因为传统的增长衡量标准没有考虑到商品的短暂寿命和被丢弃时对经济的损失。本文认为，社会应该寻求商品和服务质量的增长。这种从数量到质量的转变是必要的，因为西方工业化经济体的消费已经超出了地球的承载能力。为了提高商品的质量，我们需要改变税收、监管和文化，以便在经济和文化上吸引人们制造和拥有寿命长的高质量商品，并相应地淘汰低质量产品。要做到这一点，可以确保商品在二手时保持其价值，引入立法以确保商品是可修复的，并加强现有的“适用”立法。本文建立在迈凯轮，布洛克和优素福和其他人的工作。
Conventional economic growth actually measures throughput, not accumulated wealth, as conventional growth measurements do not take account of the short life of goods and the loss to the economy when they are discarded. This article argues that society should be seeking growth in the quality of goods and services. This change from quantity to quality is necessary because Western industrialised economies are already consuming beyond the planet's carrying capacity. To improve the quality of goods we need to change taxation, regulation and culture so it is financially and culturally attractive to make and possess high quality goods which have a long life, and to correspondingly phase out low quality products. This can be done by ensuring goods keep their value when secondhand, introducing legislation to ensure goods are repairable, and strengthening existing 'fit for purpose' legislation. This article builds on the work of McLaren, Bullock and Yousef and others.