国学大师章太炎经济思想论析

国学大师章太炎是坚定的重农论者,他曾明确指出农业是工商业发展的前提并要求改革中国近代的土地制度,但其基本主张前后不一,即原先赞同孙中山的平均地权纲领,后来却否定之.他也是典型的金属货币论者,但其金属主义货币理论经历了一个逐步发展成熟的演进过程.他不仅主张实行一些兼顾税负公平和财政增收需要的征税举措,也主张谨慎对待外债,却又因为一度追随袁世凯的政治立场而错误地批评黄兴为维护中国主权而倡办国民捐以防止袁氏政府滥借外债的正确主张.他还能够辩证地看待侈靡式消费,并就民国初年东北经济的振兴提出了具体的对策.

Discussion on Zhang Tai-yan's Economic Thoughts

Zhang Tai-yan as Chinese Guoxue master is a firm scholar valuing agriculture.He made it clear that agriculture is the premise of industrial and commercial development and called for the reform of modern Chinese land system,whose basic propositions however was inconsistent,i.e.he originally agreed with Sun Yat-sen's program of the average land ownership but later denied it.He is a typical scholar sticking to the metal currency,but his theory of metal currency had undergone a process of gradually maturing.He ...