水比钻石有用,但为什么水比钻石便宜的多?

物以稀贵~~现在的人们到对水的爱惜和认识还不够深不够足,因而形成了一种不平衡的观念.钻石却被人们认为是富贵的象征,钻石被人们的一种爱比较的心理观演变成攀比的物资了.

My Review on the Water-Diamond Paradox

The water-diamond paradox, which was set forth by John Law(1704), and made famous by Adam Smith(1776), indicates that, water is useful to humans,''t b diamonds are useless to humans, thus water should have a higher "use value" or "utility" than diamonds do.To solve the paradox, in my opinion, we can resort to either classical theories or neo-classical ones. From the classical economists'' perspective, Utility can also be related to desire rather than usefulness, thus diamonds still thve utility since they are desired, and in the short run, scarcity may play an important role in the determination of price, therefore , it won''t be to difficult to imagine the higher price of diamonds since they are so rare.On the other hand, in the long run, neither utility nor rarity have a role in the determination of n