生产的时间结构:奥地利学派资本理论述评

Time Structure of Production: a Review of Austrian Capital Theory

奥地利学派一直就非常重视时间在经济分析中的作用,从门格尔的低级财货和高级财货到庞巴维克的迂回生产,再到米塞斯的异质性资本,最后到哈耶克三角形,时间已经成为奥地利学派经济理论的典型特征。虽然表现形式不同,但都坚持一个观点,即生产的时间结构,或资本的时间特征和互补特征。这一观点一直为主流经济学家所忽视,而奥地利学派运用这一理论对生产过程、经济周期进行了深入分析,提供了一种对经济问题的全新解读,这对理解当今经济意义重大。

Austrian school has always attached great importance to time in economic analysis,such as the lower and advanced wealth and goods of Menger,the roundabout production of Bhm-Bawerk,the heterogeneity capital of Mises,and the triangle of Hayek,so time has become a typical feature of the economic theory of Austrian school. Although different forms,they insist on one point,that is the time structure of production,or the time characteristics and complementary characteristics of capital. This view has been ignored by mainstream economists,while the Austrians apply this theory to analysis the production process and economic cycle deeply,and provides a new interpretation of economic issues,which has great significance for understanding today＇s economy.