论中国的经济史学与西方主流经济学的关系

On the Relationship between Chinese Economic Historiography and Western Mainstream Economics

由于西方主流经济学“一般性理论”的研究对象是西方社会,而近代中国的经济发展水平和非经济因素不同于西方社会,假设条件不符,因此不能简单、直接地照搬这些理论来分析近代中国,必须先进行适用性检验,如果可能的话,需要进行假设条件的创造性转化。中国的经济史学的一般目标,是在研究近当代中国经济史时,对经济学理论进行限制、校正和还原,研究被一般性理论所抽象掉的非经济因素,即历史文化特征、制度约束条件等。本文反对把经济理论看成是无条件的、不变的和绝对的,认为中国的经济学研究者不应满足于用中国的历史数据来证明某个西方经济学模型的正确性和普遍适用性,或者模仿西方学者发表过的某篇论文的样式,来一个“拷贝不走样”的“中国版”,并认为不宜用现代经济理论去分析经济发展基础和约束条件完全不同的古代社会。中国的经济史学的最高目标是理论、历史、统计三者高度融合,参与开创适用于近代中国和当代中国的经济学理论和中国学派。

Because the object of study of western mainstream economics “generalized theory” is western society, and the economic development level and non-economic factors were different than western society, the postulated conditions are discrepancy, so we cannot simply and directly copy western mainstream economics and analyze modern China, we must proceed applicability checkout, if possible, we need creativity transform of postulated conditions. The general objective of Chinese economic historiography is that when we study economic history of modern and contemporary China, we should impose restrictions on theory, revise and restore, study non-economic factors, such as historical cultural characteristics, institutional constraint conditions and so on, these are abstracted by generalized theory. The economic theory is not unconditional, fixed and absolute, we should not use Chinese historical data to prove the correctness or general applicability of some western economic models, we should not imitate some papers issued by western scholars and provide a Chinese edition, we should not use modern economic theory to analyze ancient society, which had entirely different economic development foundation and constraint conditions. The supreme goal of Chinese economic historiography is the perfect fusion of theory, history and statistics, taking part in the initiation of economics theory that is appropriated for modern and contemporary China.