现代通货膨胀定义:修正抑或替代?——对“通货膨胀是货币现象还是物价现象”的再考察

Modern Inflation Definition: Revise or Act for?——Consideration on the question of "inflation: monetary phenomenon or price phenomenon?"

我国学者对通货膨胀定义问题的研究经历了从传统到现代的演进过程;传统定义是马克思主义范式的,现代定义则在通货膨胀是“货币现象”还是“物价现象”之间徘徊与选择。在当代金融经济蓬勃兴起的背景下,通货膨胀具有新的理论内涵和表现形式;通货膨胀“既不是货币现象也不是物价现象”,而是一种金融现象;不是“通货”膨胀,而是“金融”膨胀。通货膨胀的现代定义面临新的选择:要么被修正,要么被替代。

The conceptual understanding of inflation among Chinese scholars has evolved from traditional meaning to modern meaning. The traditional meaning was proposed by Marx, the modern meaning is quarried between monetary and prince phenomenon. Under the background of prosperous financial economy, the inflation has the new theories contents and manifestations. The inflation neither is the currency phenomenon nor the commodity price phenomenon, it is a kind of financial phenomenon. It is not a 'currency' inflation, but a 'finance' inflation. The modern definition of the inflation faces to the new choice: to be revised, or to be acted for.