幸福递减定律(国外英文资料).doc

幸福递减定律(国外英文资料) Zhu yuanzhang was a poor boy, one day, hungry and sick, begging for a bowl of soup, covered with pieces of green vegetables, there are a few pieces of tofu, feel the taste is very beautiful. He later when the emperor, delicacies the more you have, the more loss of appetite, the monkey do the so-called jade Bai Yushang chef, chef to do go to, however, also do not out of zhu yuanzhang to taste the beauty of that year. A young American was suffering from thirst in the African desert when he was given a glass of water and gave him a lot of satisfaction and happiness. And when he came back to the United States, there was drinking water everywhere, and a glass of water had reduced his happiness to zero. A Chinese woman, during the cultural revolution, stood in line to buy fish in dongshan, frozen for two or three hours and bought a fat fish. The middle section is steamed, the tail is braised, the fish head makes a casserole, and a fish makes the whole family happy for two weeks. Later, when the fish were ready to buy and no queue, she thought the fish was not as good as the Beijing fish. These phenomena show that the benefits of the same thing are different for people in different demand states. In western economics, this is summed up as the law of diminishing marginal returns. This means that the amount of additional satisfaction obtained from acquiring a unit of goods decreases with the amount of goods acquired. This is a paradox of economic development, according to the author of the law of diminishing returns. Economic development is to create more happiness to human beings, but the economic development, the material of the diminishing marginal benefit is, the less people get happiness from the material, deviated from the fundamental purpose of economic development. Dont let your happiness decrease with the gain According to this, some people say that god has made some natural disasters in the world from time to time to solve this paradox. In a war, th