V2一个科学家B什么的，以他名字定义了一个B’s disease.这个病是说当inflation rate 上升的时候，performing art的cost rate比其他 product cost rate要高很多，后面是解释这个原因的，有因为新技术产生所以这个product的生产成本下降.

　　第二段先说另外一个科学家置疑这个观点，后面又有一个F的科学家发现从orchestra的例子里面又发现其实B’s disease存在的，但是也不排除其他原因

　　V2 P1讲某人的理论定义了一个disease, 影响performance industry的production cost高于inflation rate. 这种现象在其他行业不怎么存在,因为随着生产的发展, 其他产业的PRODUCTIVITY很高, 而PERFORMANCE INDUSTRY, 主要的人工劳力成本很高,而且PRODUCTIVITY没什么变化,所以受影响教大. P2提出根据某人的调查发现,其实PERFORMANCE INDUSTRY是不存在这个问题的. 因为什么什么原因,(记得有一个是观众的需求在增加. ) 但,另外一个人的研究又认为PERFORMANCE INDUSTRY IS SUBJECTED TO THIS DISEASE. (DIEASE应该理解为是PROBLEM OR TYPICAL ISSUE较合适)

　　V3第一段说一个叫B的人提出了一个以他名字命名的disease，其实是一个经济学现象，说的是arts industry的…(好像是production cost的提高率)高于inflation rate。然后分析原因，说在一般的industry中，技术的发展使productivity提高了，但是在art industry，labor cost没法改变，所以造成了它的production cost高。第二段写两个人的发现，第一个是反对B的观点(没有相关题目)，第二个是一个叫F的人，他的发现符合B的观点，但他不同一B的分析。(有一题问：F和B都同意的是什么)。

　　V4JJ里Disease那篇.第一段讲了一个人的观点，第二段讲了另一个人的观点，部分反驳了第一人。Q1问第一段里讲TECHNOLOGY 水平提高的目的是什么?这主要是将制造业和ART进行对比，制造业水平提高，COST就减小,PRODUCTIVITY就增加。我是本着这个选的B。答案 B和C比较混淆，注意看。Q2问第二个人和第一个人的观点相同之处是什么。我用的排除法，拿不太准大家遇到了好好看吧。

　　V5讲述人A关于art organization的cost disease理论，该理论大意是：别的商品，随着投资的增加，productivity一般都会上升;但art这东西不同，它的 productivity不会随着别的因素变化;因为(文章举例说)该45分钟的演奏你一分钟也不能少(这中间有些东西看不明白，什么与 inflation rate的关系等等，就是这些东西很confusing)。然后人B反驳;又有人C的研究表明A部分正确，但还有不对的地方。这是我的第一篇文章，因为头昏沉，读了两遍，好在不长，只有两段。记得一题是说A和B的观点在那个方面相同，选项看了半天，好像哪个都不对，但最后还是选了一个;还有一题是那个45 分钟演奏的例子作用。

　　v6学者A提出一个概念，这个概念是....认为艺术事业productivity没有提高(和productivity，inflation rate，但搞不清具体的关系是什么，但不影响解题)。A认为艺术失业的productivity不变，举了一个例子，说什么设施的建设没有要求更少的 labor cost，来支持它的观点。有一个例子作用题，我选 provide a example related to one aspect of labor cots of ....第二段给了其他两个学者的研究，一个认为生产率有上升但部分同意A的观点，一个认为生产率的上升时有可能的。文章最后一句是：pointing out the.....,however, xuezhe 认为 increases of the producitivity are possible。这一段第一个学者也举了个例子。 这里出题了，我选的是 这个例子说明了productivity并没有上升到足以抵消inflation影响的程度。

　　考题:

　　1. 记得一题是说a和b的观点在那个方面相同

　　选项看了半天，好像哪个都不对，但最后还是选了一个

　　2. 还有一题是那个45分钟演奏的例子in order to/有一个例子作用题

　　我选 provide an example related to one aspect of labor cots of ....

　　3. 这一段第一个学者也举了个例子。 这里出题了

　　我选的是这个例子说明了productivity并没有上升到足以抵消inflation影响的程度。

　　补充阅读:

　　Baumol's cost disease (also known as the Baumol Effect) is a phenomenon described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s. It involves a rise of salaries in jobs that have experienced no increase of labor productivity in response to rising salaries in other jobs which did experience such labor productivity growth. This goes against the theory in classical economics that wages are always closely tied to labor productivity changes.

　　The rise of wages in jobs without productivity gains is caused by the necessity to compete for employees with jobs that did experience gains and hence can naturally pay higher salaries, just as classical economics predicts. For instance, if the music industry pays its musicians 19th century style salaries, the musicians may decide to quit and get a job at an automobile factory where salaries are commensurate to high labor productivity. Hence, musicians' salaries are increased not due to labor productivity increases in the music industry, but rather due to productivity and wage increases in other industries.

　　The original study was conducted for the performing arts sector. Baumol and Bowen pointed out that the same number of musicians are needed to play a Beethoven string quartet today as were needed in the 1800s; that is, the productivity of Classical music performance has not increased. On the other hand, wages of musicians (as well as in all other professions) have increased greatly since the 19th century.

　　In a range of businesses, such as the car manufacturing sector and the retail sector, workers are continually getting more productive due to technological innovations to their tools and equipment. In contrast, in some labor-intensive sectors that rely heavily on human interaction or activities, such as nursing, education, or the performing arts there is little or no growth in productivity over time. As with the string quartet example, it takes nurses the same amount of time to change a bandage, or college professors the same amount of time to mark an essay, in 2006 as it did in 1966.

　　Baumol's cost disease is often used to describe the lack of growth in productivity in public services such as public hospitals and state colleges. Since many public administration activities are heavily labor-intensive there is little growth in productivity over time. As a result growth in the GDP will generate little more resources to be spent in public sector. Thus public sector production is more depended on taxation level than growth in the GDP.

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