新政治经济学的渊源及其研究方法

The Origin and Methodology of the New Political Economy

政治经济学与政治学分离之后,出于对方法论进步的渴求,数理分析方法被大量引入经济研究,而政治的因素则日益淡化。这造就了“经济学”的繁荣,却也导致其根本缺陷。现实生活中经济与政治的内在关联决定了经济研究中政治的因素不可或缺。在此背景下试图通过从制度和历史的角度批判主流经济学的假设和概念、进而重构大多数经济学模型的新政治经济学悄然兴起。它所体现的研究取向为中国经济问题的解决提供了有益的启示。

After the separation of political economy from political science, mathematical analysis was introduced into economic research on a large scale out of an aspiration for better methodology while political factors were increasingly weakened. This contributed to the prosperity of ＂economies＂, but also resulted in its fundamental drawbacks. The internal interconnection between economy and politics in real life determines the indispensableness of political factors in economic research. Against this background, the new political economy has emerged, which seeks to criticize the assumptions and concepts of mainstream economics from an institutional and historical perspective and reconstruct most economic models. Its research orientation offers useful inspiration for the resolution of economic problems in China.