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| Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, Second Edition 作者 John H. Dunning和Sarianna M. Lundan。一位是在英國，一位在芬蘭。 原書應該是一本課本。第十八章講和跨國企業有關的政治、文化，社會責任等議題。 Although it is possible to view many of the functions of government (for example, defence, law and order, environmental protection) as complementary to, or supportive of, wealth creation –particularly that generated by market forces – in the short to medium term they not only redirect resources away from the generation of wealth, but they also have to be paid for by the wealth generators. Sometimes the trade-offs involved are more delicately balanced than is readily admitted. Too much expenditure on non-wealth-creating activities may lower the future capacity of a nation to create output out of which such activities are financed. The same applies to the promotion of social welfare and the protection of the less able or less privileged members of society. Here, the balance between justice, fairness and compassion on the one hand, and economic wealth sustainment and creation on the other, is a fine one. On the one hand, if, through the tax system, national income is redistributed too evenly, the incentive to earn additional wealth or to be entrepreneurial may be blunted; on the other, too wide a gap between the most and least wealthy members of society may lead to a less healthy and less well-educated workforce, and, on occasions, to severe social unrest. Sometimes it is as much a question of inter-generational income distribution as that between the current beneficiaries of wealth and non-wealth-creating activities. |
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