近 35年来 ,韩国、台湾、新加坡和香港已经从一个科技落后 ,生活贫穷的社会变成了一个科学技术先进 ,生活富裕的经济社会。在这段时间内 ,这些国家的资本收益率增长四倍多 ,而英国、美国、法国与德国从十九世纪开始 ,却足足花了 80多年才达到这样高的水平。尽管日本在 1 95 2年 In the past 35 years, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong have transformed themselves from a society that lags behind in science and technology and living in poverty into an economically and socially advanced society with a prosperous life. During these times, the rate of return on capital in these countries had more than quadrupled, and Britain, the United States, France and Germany, which started in the nineteenth century, took more than 80 years to reach such high levels. Although Japan was in 1952