略论司马迁的经济思想及其渊源——兼论其对政治革新家的态度与评价

Brief Study on Sima Qian's Economic Thought and Its Origin -And on His Attitude to and Evaluation on the Political Renovators

在经济政策的见解上,司马迁主张让社会经济生活自然发展,而反对过多的行政干预。司马迁的这种经济思想与儒、道、法三家俱有渊源。他较多地吸取了管子、老子与荀子的学说,而把孟子与韩非子的思想当作了反面的参照系。司马迁对政治革新家的态度,主要与他的经济思想有关。本文试以他对商鞅变法的态度为例,剖析他对政治革新家的评价中褒里有贬的原因。

As to the economic policy, Sima Qian proposed that the social economy shall develop naturally without too many administrative interventions Such economic thought of Sima Qian has its origin in Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism. He accepted more theories from Guanzi, Laozi and Xunzi but took the theories of Mencius and Hanfeizi as negative reference. Sima Qian's attitude to the Political Renovators is mainly associated with his economic thought. The author of this article tries to explain the reason why Sima Qian's evaluation on the Political Renovators involves both praises and criticisms by studying Sima Qian's attitude to Shang Yang's political reform.