范蠡价格思想刍议

Fan Li's Thoughts on Prices:A Preliminary Inquiry

范蠡不仅是华商鼻祖,也是我国封建政府宏观调控经济理论的创始人。范蠡的价格思想主要包含三大内容:一是商品价格形成的基础在于供给和需求的相互影响;二是商品价格是变动的,变动的规律是"贵上极则反贱,贱下极则反贵";三是影响价格波动的主要原因是农产品的供给。将范蠡的价格思想运用到商业运营方面就形成了积著之理,运用到国家宏观调控经济方面就形成了平粜理论。范蠡价格思想的不足之处在于对农业和商业的矛盾考虑不多,这构成了商家积著之理和国家平粜理论之间的内在冲突,埋下了后来封建政府重农抑商政策的种子。

Fan Li was the founder of Chinese business people and the originator of theories for c regulation by feudal governments in China. His thoughts on prices cover three main areas ： First, prices are formed on the basis of the interaction between supply and demand ; second ,prices change according to the law that ＂ if prices are taken to upper extremes they will fall, and if they are taken to lower extremes they will rise＂; third, fluctuations in agricultural product prices result from supply. These thoughts form principles of doing business and accumulating wealth when applied to business administration, and form theories of selling grain stored in granaries at fair prices in famine years when applied to macroeconomic regulation. A defect of Fan Li＇s thoughts lies in lack of consideration of the contradiction between agriculture and commerces which constitutes the inherent conflict between principles of doing business and accumulating wealth and the policy of selling grain stored in granaries at fair prices in famine years and plants the seeds of the policy of emphasizing agriculture at the expense of commerce by subsequent feudal governments.