稳态经济视角下国民财富核算体系的修正之路

Alternative Trajectory for National Wealth Accounting System from the Perspective of Steady State Economy

以GDP为主导的传统国民经济核算体系无法准确地衡量可持续发展的状态和趋势。包括绿色GDP、真实储蓄率等在内的"新"的核算方法试图弥补传统核算体系在核算目标、核算范围和核算方法上的不足。然而这些所谓新的核算方法仍未摆脱传统增长经济学的窠臼。赫尔曼·E.达利等提出的稳态经济为重新审视这一"增长癖"提供了新的目标、规则和研究范式。在稳态经济视角下,从可持续发展角度出发,国民财富核算体系应从单一目标扩展为多目标协同的核算体系,重新审视和评估经济系统和生态系统间的复杂关系,同时应将时间纬度纳入核算体系中。

Traditional national wealth accounting systems that centralize GDP as the main indicator failed to evaluate current conditions and trends of sustainable development. ＂New＂ accounting methods including green GDP, genuine savings and etc., attempted to remedy defects of accounting objects, ranges and methodologies of traditional national accounting systems. Nevertheless, these ＂new＂ accounting methods failed to escape the trap of ＂growth mania＂ of mainstream economics. Steady state economics proposed by Herman E. Daly and other ecological economists provided renewed analytical structure for re-interpret the concept of sustainable development. Grounded upon steady state economics and from the perspective of sustainable development, an alternative trajectory for national wealth accounting system could be adopted. Alternative accounting system should target multiple targets, evaluate complex relations between economic system and ecological system and integrate time as a critical dimension for national wealth accounting system.