2012年MBA英语阅读理解：阅读记单词和长难句分析（下篇）.docVIP

2012年MBA英语阅读理解：阅读记单词和长难句分析（下篇） When the leaders of the new economy say they’re not in it for the money, that’s not just bad for business. It’s bad for everyone. 　　Some of the pioneers of the new economy are saying very strange things. These moguls of modern-day capitalism solemnly deny that they are engaged in business for the purpose of making money. What抯 going on here? Adam Smith, the founding father of capitalism, presumed that people engage in commercial activity for the purpose of economic gain. Have capitalism’s most successful practitioners evolved beyond such base intentions? Are we to infer that the world’s largest wealth-creation scheme is being driven largely by nonprofit motives? 　　Not really. New-economy tycoons still like to make money. They simply want to make clear that they are also driven by higher motives. And this trend in pursuit of higher things is spreading through the business world. 1) A recent editorial in the Red Herring posited business as an expression of the highest human capacities: “Money comes to those who do it for love”, such talk has become so common that we have to remind ourselves that it is a fairly recent innovation. You probably don’t have the time to review the immense sociological literature on the attitudes of workers in the early and middle part of the 20th century. A single book, Studs Terkel’s Working, should be enough to make the point, or perhaps just a brief talk with some old guys about their work philosophy. You won’t hear a lot of mush about saving the world or finding nirvana in the workplace. To these people, today’s rhetoric about meaning in the work place must sound absurd. 　　The attempt to fine higher purpose and meaning to life. This isn抰 just a philosophical matter. 2)when we seek meaning in work at the expense of the institutions society has built specifically to contain meaning-the arts, our families, the church and so eon-we risk a great deal. We may not merely disappoint ourselves; we could disrupt th