Like Bentham, Mill maintains that the fundamental guide to moral action should be the maximisation of pleasure and the minimisation of pain.

和边沁一样，穆勒坚持道德行为的基本指南是使快乐最大化和痛苦最小化。

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Ordinary profit-maximisation ("greed", as we are now asked to call it) would induce them to look prudent and opulent and selective in the risks they take.

通常，利润的最大化（贪婪，现在我们这样称呼它）会促使他们让人看上去谨慎、豪华以及谨慎处理风险。

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The investment bank embraced the maximisation of shareholder value when it went public in 1999.

ECONOMIST: Shareholders v stakeholders

Drop the fancy acronyms, and the maximisation of shareholder value is a blinding flash of the obvious.

ECONOMIST: Valuable

This is a shift from 20th century production centered economics of profit maximisation toward 21st century people-centered local economies.

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