15. 信用と成長のジレンマ
• If the global pie stayed the same size, there was no margin
for credit. Credit is the difference between today’s pie and
tomorrow’s pie. If the pie stays the same, why extend
credit?
• People seldom wanted to extend much credit because they
didn’t trust that the future would be better than the present.
• Business looked like a zero-sum game.
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16. • You could cut the pie in many different ways,
but it never got bigger.
• That’s why many cultures concluded that
making bundles of money was sinful.
• It was lose-lose.
– Because credit was limited, people had troubled
financing new businesses.
– Because there were few new businesses, the
economy did not grow.
– Because it did not grow, people assumed it never
would…
• The expectation of stagnation fulfilled itself.
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20. 再投資と資本主義
• All this depends, however, on the rich using their profits to
open new factories and hire new employees, rather than
wasting them on non-productive activities.
• A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the
emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought
to be reinvested in production.
• That’s why capitalism is called “capitalism”.
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30. “お金”の力
• Money is a system of mutual trust, and not just any system
of mutual trust: money is the most universal and most
efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
• Money is the only trust system created by humans that can
bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate
on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual
orientation.
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