钻石和水的价值悖论:一个合乎逻辑的叙述

A Logical Account on the Definition of Diamond-water Paradox

亚当·斯密提出的钻石和水的价值悖论存在着三条解决路向,沿着这三条逻辑路向,分别出现劳动价值论、边际效用价值论和新古典主义的分析等三种解决的理论和方法。这前后相继的三种理论和方法,既反映了整个经济学的价值价格理论的发展轨迹,也囊括了价值价格理论发展的所有逻辑路向。近些年我国总有些学者或固执地坚持劳动价值论,或要求重建新的价值理论,倘若他们明白了西方价值理论的整个发展脉络,就会发现这样的坚持和要求是不明智的。

There exist three directions, according to Adam Smith, for the solution of the Diamond-water Paradox. And thus there come the three theories and methods to settle the paradox, which lay respectively in the Labor Theories, the Marginal Utility Theory, and the Neoclassical Analysis. The three consecutive theories and methods reflect the development of the value theories in economics, and display all the logical directions of the value theories. Some economists in our country insist in sol- ving this paradox with the Labor Theories, or calling for new value theories, which they might as well abandon, if they had made a thorough exploration on the building of the western valuc theories.