Ilove movies, television and novels, but I become depressed at the persistently negative image of business portrayed in so much fictional drama. Writers and film makers, in works ranging from Hard Times to Avatar, always seem to make corporations and their bosses the bad guys. And in the past six years a whole academic genre has sprouted up, churning out books claiming that the current capitalist system is broken – recent British additions being Geoff Mulgan’s The Locust and the Bee and father-and-son team Robert and Edward Skidelsky’s How Much Is Enough?
我喜欢电影、电视和小说，但众多虚构故事中所描写的一贯负面的企业形象，让我感到沮丧。作家和电影制作者似乎总是把企业及其老板刻画成坏人，这些作品从《艰难时世》(Hard Times)到《阿凡达》(Avatar)，不一而足。过去6年，一大批搞学术的冒了出来，他们纷纷出书宣称当前的资本主义制度已经失败。最近，英国的两本著作也加入其中，它们是杰夫•马尔根(Geoff Mulgan)所著的《蝗虫和蜜蜂》(The Locust and the Bee)，以及罗伯特•斯基德尔斯基(Robert Skidelsky)与爱德华•斯基德尔斯基(Edward Skidelsky)父子所著的《多少算够？》(How Much Is Enough？)。