生物学类比与演化经济学的发展阶段

Biological Analogy and Development Stages of Evolutionary Economics

演化经济学试图以生物学作为自然科学基础来解释社会经济现象,突破了统治西方经济学近两百年的古典力学基础,推动了现代经济学革命性的发展。根据不同的划分标准,演化经济学的发展阶段有多种划分方式。本文依据演化经济学中的生物学类比将演化经济学的发展划分为三个阶段:达尔文进化论作为总体分析框架的形成阶段,达尔文综合进化论和生物学理论深入应用阶段和普适达尔文主义作为本体论基础从而超越生物学类比的发展阶段。本文探讨了每个阶段的生物学类比特点与演化经济学内容,并对演化经济学发展的前景进行了展望。

Evolutionary economics attempts to resort to biology as the natural science basis of explaining social economic phenomena.This is a breakthrough of the classical mechanics basis which has dominated western economics for almost two hundred years and thus promoted a revolutionary development of modern economics.There are different classification criteria to define the development stages of evolutionary economics.Based on the approach of biological analogy of evolutionary economics,this paper identifies three development stages of evolutionary economics.They are： the formation stage when Darwin＇s evolution theory was applied as the general analysis frame,the application stage when Darwinist comprehensive evolution theory and biological theory were further applied,and the development stage when universal Darwinism was referred to as the ontology basis and thus transcended that of the biological analogy.The characteristics of biological analogy and the contents of evolutionary economics at each stage are discussed.The future development prospects of evolutionary economics are also proposed.