Homo Economicus Goes Native, 1859-1945: The Rise and Fall of Primitive Economics
Homo Economicus Goes Native, 1859-1945: The Rise and Fall of Primitive Economics
复制标题
经济人本土化，1859-1945：原始经济学的兴衰
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2000
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Heath Pearson
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Heath Pearson
直到十九世纪后三十年，经济理论还没有承担起原始人的重担。1这并不是说政治经济学中完全没有猎人、采集者、园丁和游牧民族，只是说他们的存在是被动的、临时的，而且很少以仔细的学术为基础。原住民社会是粗略的例证，而不是经验科学。经济学家很少冒险超越十七、十八世纪盛行的猜想历史风格，超越罗纳德·米克（Ronald Meek，1971，1976）专业描述的经济发展的“四阶段理论”：学者们翻遍了《旧约》、凯撒大帝、塔西佗，以及一些关于经济发展的理论。
Up to the last third of the nineteenth century, economic theory bore all too lightly the burden of primitive man.1 This is not to say that hunters, gatherers, gardeners, and nomads were quite absent from political economy, only that their presence was passive, ad hoc, and rarely grounded in careful scholarship. Aboriginal society was the stuff of coarse illustration, not empirical science. Rarely did economists venture beyond the style of conjectural history prominent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, beyond what Ronald Meek (1971, 1976) has expertly characterized as the “four-stages theory” of economic development: scholars ransacked the Old Testament, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, and a smattering of