经济学的科学性意味着什么——经济学的双重属性及其研究思维

What does the Scientism of Economics Implicate?——the Double Nature of Economics and Its Research Thought

经济学的研究对象涵盖了人与自然以及人与社会这两个关系层面,涉及到自然世界和生活世界两大领域,因此,经济学本身具有人文性和科学性的双重特性,它们也典型地体现在经济学理论研究的两个相应阶段上。但是,不管在对经济学性质的认知上存在何等的不同,经济学都不能直接归入自然科学的范畴,因为无论是在科学的内涵、研究的目的还是研究的方法上,经济学与自然科学都存在很大差异:经济学注重思辨性,其理论也带有强烈的主观性和规范性。因此,尽管我们强调经济学要朝科学化的方向发展,但其科学性的麦加并非就是以物理学为代表的自然科学。

The research object of economics involves two broad fields: the nature and the human world. As a result, economics has double natures: humanity and scientism, which is embodied on the two corresponding phases of economics research. Regardless of the differences in the nature of economics, economics itself can not be directly embraced in natural sciences. This is because economics differs from natural sciences in connotation, research objectives and methodology. Economics theories tend to be controvertible, subjective and normative. Thus, the aim of scientism is not the natural science represented by physics though economics tends to be more scientific.