浅析新古典经济学及其影响

An Analysis Over Neo-Classical Economics and its Influence

在西方经济学诸多流派中,新古典经济学是起着承前启后作用的重要流派。它承袭了古典经济学自由竞争的传统和主张,发展了经济学的研究方法并拓宽了研究领域,尤以边际分析方法名噪一时,被称为“边际革命”,从上世纪末到本世纪初,统治西方经济学长达四十余年,为现代微观经济学的发展奠定了基础,并对宏观经济学的形成产生了深刻的影响。本文论述了新古典经济学产生的背景,其主要内容和影响,并分析、指出了其理论体系和研究方法的重要缺陷和谬误。

Among the many schools of Western economics,the neo-classical economics isan important sect inheriting the past and ushering in the future.It inherits thetraditional view of the classical economics for free competition,further developsthe methods in economic study and widens the field of research.It is particular-ly famous for its method of marginal analysis,which has been reputed as “mar-ginal revolution”.From the end of 19th century to the earlier 20th centary,neo-classical economics governed the Western economics for more than 40 yearsand laid a solid base for the development of modern microeconomics.It has alsoexerted its profound influence on the formation Of macroeconomics.This essayis mainly an account of the background for the emergence of neo-classical eco-nomics,its main contents and influence as well as an analysis aiming at expoun-ding some significant defects and fallacies in its theoretical system and methodof study.