灾荒与民生:考察陈炽经济思想的新视角

Famine and People's Livelihood: A New Perspective on the Economic Thought or Chen Chi

本文从陈炽身处的时代背景、独特的个人经历入手，对其经济思想的体系进行再探讨，指出其经济思想大多是因灾荒而起，以救治民生为中心，并在中国经济思想史上第一次从环境变迁的角度分析了近代中国特别是北方地区地瘠民贫、灾荒频仍的原因，进而提出了一系列人口的、环境的、经济的、社会的救治措施，为近代中国经济发展提供了一条新的思路，给后来的经济思想家们以特殊意义的借鉴。

This article systematically examines the economic thought of Chen Chi from the perspective of his personal background and individual experiences. This study reveals that his economic theory, which placed the people's livelihood at the center, was greatly influenced by China's experience with famine in the late Qing. This article states that Chen was the first economic theorist to take environmental change into account when analyzing the impoverishment of northern China and the rising frequency of famine. Chen thus contributed to the advance of modern demographic. environmental, economic, and social policies, and introduced new ideas for development of China's economy that had a significant influence on later economic theoreticians.