“弱化的三难困境”与战后日本经济社会稳定

The"Compromised Trilemma"and Japan’s Socio-economic Stability in the Post-war Era

大部分国家在融入经济全球化时,往往面临经济一体化、大众政治、民族国家构成的“扩展的三难困境”。战后至今,日本借助限制自由化进程、构建均质社会、寻求缩小经济意识形态差异等路径,实现了某种“弱化的三难困境”,经由经济协调、社会减压、政治趋同的正向反馈和叠加效应,减轻了三个目标间的对立矛盾,从而实现了经济社会的相对稳定。这些路径选择具有鲜明的内外互动特征,具体表现为追求对内和对外的并行目标、注重经济战略实施和政策作用对象的“双重性”、充分发挥缓冲和补偿机制的作用。

Most countries have to face an"extended trilemma’composed of global economic integration,mass politics and national sovereignty when they try to engage with the economic globalization.However,from the post-war period to the very present,Japan has reached a certain compromised trilemma"by means of restricted liberalization process,the construction of a homogeneous society,and the pursuit of narrowing differences in economic ideologies.Through the positive interaction and superposition effects of economic coordination,social decompression and political convergence,the contradictions among the three goals are largely alleviated,thereby contributing to Japan’s socio-economic stability.Those paths have distinct characteristics of internal-and-external interactions,which are embodied in the pursuit of parallel goals,the emphasis on the"duality"of economic strategy and policy targets,and the full play of buffering and compensation mechanisms.