对经济增长含义的重新审视——兼析经济增长理论面临的两个问题

在主流经济学文献中,经济增长通常被理解为经济的人均产出或收入增加。但重新解读经济结构变化的含义可发现,经济增长不仅包含产出增加,还包含经济结构的变化。从一定意义上讲,正是由于主流文献的这一误解导致了如下两个问题:一是现代经济增长理论与发展经济学处于一种彼此分割、有时甚至是相互对立的状态;二是面对经济增长现实,现代经济增长理论的解释力较差。

Rethinking the Meaning of Economic Growth——Also on the two problems facing economic growth theory

In the mainstream economic literature,economic growth has a connotation of an increase in per capita national income or product.After rethinking the meaning of economic structure change,this paper argues that economic growth involves not only an increase in product,but also economic structure change.The misunderstanding of the meaning of economic growth causes the two following problems.One is that modern economic growth theory and development economics have for a long time been distant cousins,and occasionally they are even hostile to each other.The other one is that modern economic growth theory can hardly explain the facts of economic growth.