老龄经济学的宏观经济内涵及学科价值分析

An Analysis of the Macroeconomic Meaning and the Discipline Significance of the Economics of Aging

人口老龄化成为21世纪不可逆转的常态,构成未来经济运行的一种基础性环境因素。人口老龄化不是单纯的老年人的问题,而是对经济有全方位影响的重大经济问题,有必要在宏观经济层面认识人口老龄化的相关经济理论。在标准经济学的框架内,老龄经济学是研究在人口老龄化为基础性约束条件下,如何进行稀缺资源有效配置与管理的经济理论;它不是老年人的经济学,而是顺应人口老龄化时代背景要求而新发展出的一门经济学分支学科;老龄经济学的学科框架主要由宏观老龄经济理论、微观老龄经济理论、产业(行业或部门)与老龄经济理论、资本(金融)与老龄经济理论、制度与老龄经济理论等内容构成。

Population aging has become an irreversible trend in the 21st century and it presents a fundamentally environmental factor that will affect the future economy. Therefore, population aging is not a sole issue of the elderly, but a major economic issue which will make omni-directional inlfuence on economy. Thus, it’s of great signiifcance and necessity to understand the related economic theories about population aging from the macroeconomic level. This paper puts forward the following viewpoints:firstly, the economics of aging is a science that studies how to effectively allocate and administrate the scarce resources under the f undamental constraint condition of population aging in the standard f ramework of economics;secondly, it’s not economics of elderly, but a newly developed sub-branch of economics in the context of population aging;and finally, the main courses of the economics of aging include macroeconomics of population aging, microeconomics of population aging, industry (sector) and theory of population aging, ifnance and theory of population aging, system and theory of population aging etc.