“骆驼是一个委员会设计马的结果”。阿马蒂亚-森引述的这句话让人沉思。大家知道,骆驼是“物竞天择适者生存”自然选择的结果,而自然选择的玄机如何,谁也说不清。森先生借用此谚,意在说明社会选择之困难。其实,世上的选择,无论是个人选择、社会选择或公共选择,哪一样不是难上加难、玄而又玄呢?正是因为选择的难和玄,方显人类的智慧。 “Camel is the result of a committee design horse ”. Amartya-Sen quoted the phrase makes people pensive. As we all know, camels are the result of natural selection of survival of the fittest, and no one can say anything about the natural selection. Mr. Sen uses this proverb to illustrate the difficulty of social choice. In fact, the choices made in the world, whether individual choices, social choices or public choices, are not all the more difficult and mysterious.