经济学理论与价值判断:一个经济学流派分析视角

19世纪末马克斯·韦伯提出经济学研究应该坚持"道德中立"原则以来,关于经济学理论是否应该存在"价值判断"一直是经济学界热烈争论的话题.对此论题,经济学家分列两端,或认为价值判断是经济学内在的组成部分,或主张作为科学的经济学不应存在价值判断.本文基于经济学流派的分析视角,认为任何经济学派别都不可能远离价值判断.综观经济学不同流派,价值判断主要体现为关于社会关系是否具有合理性的判断、关于经济理论是否具有科学性的判断以及理论研究与叙述方法优劣的判断.经济学各流派的不同价值判断决定了经济学的不同"论域"以及相应的"话语系统".

Economic Theories and Value Judgment:A Perspective of Economic Schools

The issue of the rationality of value judgment in economic theories has been the hot topic in the academia since Max Weber proposed the rule of Moral Neutrality in the late 19th century.Economists have different opinions of this issue.The proponents argue that value judgment is the internal part of economics while the opponents persist in believing that economics as a scientific research field must be far away from value judgment.In a perspective of economic schools,the paper considers that any economic sch...