本质与形式:货币演化的逻辑

Nature and Form:The Logic of Money Evolution

本质与形式是理解货币问题的关键,二者不可分割并统一于货币的演化逻辑。货币演化以货币起源矛盾为始,经实物货币、信用货币和后信用货币三个发展阶段。以演化博弈的思想来看,货币形式的演变是博弈的低水平均衡向高水平均衡的发展,货币的本质也蕴含其中。但货币本质问题又超越了形式演化博弈,上升至一个三维世界的综合分析框架。从而,货币的本质最终是一种人类社会的契约秩序,这种秩序是主观偏好选择与客观资源约束的结合与抽象,是主客观的统一。同时,货币秩序不断扩展其适用的界域,成为整个人类社会宏大复杂秩序的重要一环,并与人类社会的发展构成一种正向循环关系。

Nature and form are the key to understanding money issues and they are inseparable and unified in the evolutionary logic of money.Money evolution starts with the contradiction of money origin and goes through three development stages:physical money,credit money and post-credit money.From the perspective of evolutionary game theory,the evolution of the form of money is the development of the game’s low-level equilibrium to a high-level equilibrium,and the nature of money is also embedded in it.But the issue of the nature of money goes beyond the evolutionary game of money forms and rises to a comprehensive analytical framework of a three-dimensional world.Therefore,the nature of money is ultimately a contractual order of human society.This order is a combination and abstraction of subjective preference choices and objective resource constraints,and is the unity of subjective and objective.At the same time,the monetary order continues to expand its applicable boundaries,becoming an important part of the grand and complex order of the entire human society,and forming apositive cycle with the development of human society.