Oct
17
“でも経済学は値段とお金についての学問じゃないの。経済学は人生でもっとも多くを手に入れる方法についての学問なのよ。これが私が学生に1番給料の高い仕事に就かないように言う理由よ。あなたはもっとも報酬の多い仕事に就くべきだけど、報酬というのは金銭的なものも金銭的じゃないものもあるわ。そして人生でもっとも多くを手に入れようとしたら、費用と便益に注意を払わなくてはいけないの。あなたがスタンフォード大学に来ると決めたとき、マイアミ大学には入れなくなったわ。あなたがテニスを選んだとき、野球は諦めたでしょう。エイミーと一緒に宿題をすると、時間をエイミーと一緒に何かもっと素晴らしいことをするのに使えなくなるわよね。全てのものには値段があるの。あなたがすることの費用―金銭的な費用や人的な費用、測れたり、推測してみることしかできない費用全て―を考慮せずに人生を過ごすこと、目に見えるそれらの費用を無視することは、意味のないつまらない人生を過ごす確実な方法よ。
(But economics is not about prices and money. Economics is about how to get the most out of life. That’s why I tell my students not to take the job that pays the most money. You should take the job that is most rewarding, where the rewards are monetary and nonmonetary. And to get the most out of life, you have to pay attention to costs and benefits. When you decided to come to Stanford, you ruled out the University of Miami. When you chose tennis, you gave up baseball. Doing homework with Amy is time you can’t spend doing something else together. Everything has a price. Living life without taking account of the costs of what you do―the financial costs and the human costs, the costs you can measure and the costs you can only guess at―leaving those costs out of the picture is a sure way to live a meaningless life.)” Ruth Lieber “The Price of Everything” P.124
(But economics is not about prices and money. Economics is about how to get the most out of life. That’s why I tell my students not to take the job that pays the most money. You should take the job that is most rewarding, where the rewards are monetary and nonmonetary. And to get the most out of life, you have to pay attention to costs and benefits. When you decided to come to Stanford, you ruled out the University of Miami. When you chose tennis, you gave up baseball. Doing homework with Amy is time you can’t spend doing something else together. Everything has a price. Living life without taking account of the costs of what you do―the financial costs and the human costs, the costs you can measure and the costs you can only guess at―leaving those costs out of the picture is a sure way to live a meaningless life.)” Ruth Lieber “The Price of Everything” P.124
