儒家经济学的构建与西方发展论的局限——基于儒家思想对阿西莫格鲁等著《国家为什么会失败》的批判

The Construction of Confucian Economics and the Limitations of Western Development Theory——Criticizing "Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity " Written by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Based on Confucian Thought

本文以德隆·阿西莫格鲁和詹姆斯·A·罗宾逊的著作《国家为什么会失败:权力、富裕、贫困的源泉》为例,总结和批评西方发展理论的主要观点及其在东方发展现实面前显露的局限性,并基于儒家社会经济发展思想及已构建的简要的儒家经济学框架,对东方经济体的成功发展进行分析,以此进一步推动儒家经济学的构建。首先,通过东西方发展思想的比较,对上述著作的一般前提和方法论进行探讨;其次,进一步分析西方制度决定论存在的局限,比较东西方理论存在的重大差异,论述儒家理论中的经济概念的内涵,以及由此引申出的东方发展制度的合理性;再次,分析西方社会科学理论对东方及中国制度的误解,这不仅影响了其对中国的认识,也影响了该理论自身的发展;第四,以日本的发展为例,论证了东方发展模式并非遵循西方经济发展理论,并根据日本发展事实总结了新的发展理论模型;最后,在进一步阐述新发展模型的同时,从更深入的层面分析儒家的发展和社会治理思想及其现代意义。

Based on "Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity " written by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson as an example, this paper summarize and criticize the main viewpoints of western development theory and the limitations revealed in the face of the development of the East, and analyze the successful development of the eastern economy based on the Confucian social and economic development thoughts and the brief Confucian economic framework that has been constructed. This further promotes the construction of Confucian economics丒 First of all, through the comparison of the development ideas of the East and the West, the general premise and methodology of the above works are discussed. Secondly, the limitations of the Western institutional determinism are further analyzed, the major differences between the East and the West are compared, and the economic concepts in Confucianism are discussed. Connotation, and the rationality of the Eastern development system derived from it;again, analyzing the misunderstanding of Western and Chinese systems by Western social science theory, which not only affects its understanding of China, but also affects its own development;Fourth, taking Japan's development as an example,it demonstrates that the Eastern development model does not follow the Western economic development theory, and summarizes the new development theory model according to the Japanese development facts. Finally, while further expounding the new development model, from a deeper level Analyze Confucian development and social governance ideas and their modem significance.