经济学的演化模式:分类与评析
作者简介:李黎力,中国人民大学经济学院副教授,中国人民大学中国经济改革与发展研究院研究员(北京100872)。
基金项目:
本文为国家社会科学基金一般项目“经济思想编史学研究”(23BJL017)的阶段性成果
摘要: 自经济学产生以降,学者们便开始陆续关注这门学科本身的演化模式。从时间维度上看,主要围绕经济学发展的“累积性观点”与“竞争性观点”之间的对立,产生了马歇尔模式、赖纳特模式两类“渐变模式论”,与库恩模式、拉卡托斯—哈奇森模式、黑格尔—马克思模式和熊彼特模式四类“革命模式论”的论争。就空间维度而言,则主要围绕经济学演变的“趋同性观点”与“趋异性观点”之间的分歧,形成了转移模式、变异模式和分化模式三种具有代表性的演化模式理论。这些演化模式研究亟待厘清和总结关于经济学发展的“典型化事实”,在此基础上借鉴科学知识社会学和科学知识经济学的研究进路,深入分析和考察背后的复杂演化动因和机制,进而在一个统一的时空框架当中系统构建经济学的时空演化模式理论。该研究不仅有助于理解和洞悉未来经济学的发展动向,而且能为中国经济学体系的构建提供历史依据和经验启示。
Evolution Models of Economics:A Classification and Analysis
Abstract: Since the emergence of economics, scholars have begun to pay attention to the evolution models of this discipline.From a temporal perspective, the main debate revolves around the opposition between the “cumulative view” and the “competitive view” of the development of economics, resulting in two types of “incremental model theories” — the Marshallian model and the Reinertian model, and four types of “revolutionary mode theories” — the Kuhnian model, the Lakatosian-Hutchisonian model, the Hegelian-Marxian model, and the Schumpeterian model.In terms of spatial dimension, three representative evolution model theories have been formed around the divergence between the “convergent view” and the “divergent view” of the evolution of economics, namely transfer model, variation model, and differentiation model.The research on these evolution models urgently needs to clarify and summarize the “stylized facts” about the development of economics.Based on this, we can draw on the research approaches of sociology of scientific knowledge and economics of scientific knowledge, deeply analyze and examine the complex evolutionary drivers and mechanisms behind them, and then systematically construct the theory of spatiotemporal evolution models in economics within a unified spatiotemporal framework.This study not only helps to understand the future development trends of economics, but also provides historical basis and empirical inspiration for the construction of Chinese economics system.