论对外投资的历史发展

On the Historical Development of Foreign Investment

对外投资既是社会生产力(特别是国际分工)发展的产物,又是特定的社会经济制度在对外经济关系方面的延伸,是二者相结合的经济范畴。因而,它仍然是一个不断变化的长过程,经历了四个时期;而且在同一个时期存在几种投资主体的条件下,还会相应地存在几种不同性质的对外投资,其作用也有差别。当代存在的三种对外投资的性质和作用都有差别,需要区别对待。当前中国学界相当流行的一种错误倾向,是脱离特定的生产关系,孤立地从资源配置角度研究对外投资问题和其它经济问题。这实际上是在运用西方经济学时,也继承了西方经济学在这方面的痼疾。

Foreign investment is not only the result of the development of social productivity（ especially of international division of labor）,but also the extension of some specific social economic system in economic relations,thus it is a combination. Foreign investment is a constantly changing long process,which has four periods. In each period there are several investment subjects,and therefore there are corresponding foreign investments of different natures,which also differ in effects. The contemporary three types of foreign investment differ in natures and effects,and need to be treated differently. There exists a very popular but wrong trend in the current domestic academia,that foreign investment and other economic issues are merely studied from the point of resource allocation,without the consideration of specific productive relation. Such trend is actually the absorption of the bad of the western economics.