刘易斯模型及相关争论的评析

自1954年刘易斯发表其经典论文以来,围绕该文及其模型在一些基本而又核心的问题上都有很多争论。本文以刘易斯文本为依据,主要对刘易斯模型中两个部门划分、劳动力剩余与生存工资、古典主义方法论及模型中的福利问题等这些基本问题及相关争论进行了评介;并对基于刘易斯模型的发展,尤其费-拉模型的主要贡献进行了评论,在厘清他们之间的联系的同时,也对长期以来存在的一些误解作了纠正。

A Perspective on the Lewis's Model and Related Disputes

After Lewis issued his classic essay in 1954,there have been a lot of controversies focusing on some basic and core issues.This paper bases on Lewis's essay and comments on some basic questions and relative disputes,including two sectors,labor surplus and the wage at the subsistence level,classical school foundations and welfare in Lewis's model.Furthermore,the paper also gives some remarks on the development of Lewis's model,especially on the contribution of Fei and Ranis model.The paper make the relations among these models clear and simultaneously correctes some long existing misunderstanding.