文化资本:经济增长源泉的一种解释

Culture Capital: An Explanation of the Source of Economic Growth

文化资本是能为人们带来持续收益的特定价值观体系,它是决定经济增长的一种关键性生产要素和最终解释变量。熊彼特所揭示的企业家精神的实质在于企业家在生产中投入了文化资本。文化资本对经济增长的作用体现在两个方面:一是它具有报酬递增的特性;二是它制约着人们对资源、技术、制度等要素的选择。进行文化资本投资主要包括实现思想、言论自由与开展文化交流、改革教育内容等,它是促进经济增长的重要途径。

Culture capital is a special value system that can bring income to the possessors. It is also both a critical production factor in economic growth and a variable for ultimate interpretation. The essence of the entrepreneurship advocated by J. A. Schumpeter lies in the culture capital pos- sessed and put into production by entrepreneurs. The function of culture capital in economic growth is two-fold: the increments in profit and the restriction of people's choice of resources, technology and institution. The investment of culture capital, an important way to promote economic growth, in- cludes the freedom of thought and speech, the communication between different cultures, the educa- tion reform. ect.