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Philosophical View Of Economics And Management

Posted on:2009-08-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360242995865Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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Marshal thought that economics is much more an art about human beings than a science about the wealth. The practical economic activities belong to both economics area and philosophy area. Economics and philosophy accrete together in many canons of famous economists. Philosophy illustrates the nature of development and the philosophic language is the most abstract and refined language. It can deepen and improve our understanding about economics, especially the essential rules of economic activities, if we use philosophic methods to comprehend economics, research the evolution rules of economics, and reconsider the structure and updating of economic theories.The first innovation of this paper is that it clarifies from the point of view of philosophy that, the fundamental precondition of economics is based on the factors that is not objective but subjective. Any objective economic rules independent from human beings' subjective thoughts does not exist. The so-called 'economic rules' are rules that are changeable according to the willing of majority of people. We still cal this conclusion 'Lucas deduction' for respect although he does not study rational expectation from the point of view of philosophy. However, this conclusion is not an obstacle for economics theory as an effective tool to analyze the objectivity and practicability of economy reality.The second innovation for this paper is finding out nature science evidence for the above theory. We can find out supports from natural science, especially quantum physics for ' Lucas deduction' . The quantum physics is the scientific foundation of this paper. Neither scientific experiments nor observations can perfectly remove the influence of mind. The rooted conception of 'objectivity' and 'substantiality', in people's mind is paradoxical even wrong when confronting relativism and quantum. The elicitation it gave us is quite profound and striking: no science can exclude the subjective factors, and no rule or area is independent from subjective factors. The reason that people feel hard to understand this is that we are all the captives of our first sight thoughts from some extent.The third innovation of this paper is to comparatively study the philosophy idea and system of demonstration of positivism in China and West from the point of view of culture of science and management of economy in the two sides. It points out the system and method of inner demonstration, which is the soul of the Chinese traditional system of demonstration in the idea of management of economy. Based on this, this paper discusses the feature of Chinese traditional idea of management of economy from multiple aspects.This paper has six parts: the first two parts introduce primarily the background of the topic and the meanings of this paper, derivate the principal ideas of this paper, summarize the research achievements and the developments of the related theory from several aspects, and prepare for the deeper discussions later. The third part describes the scientific foundation of the paper—the quantum theory, reflects it from the philosophical point of view and analyzes its philosophical meanings and values. The forth and fifth parts are the highlights. The forth part proves our hypothesis from multiple aspects, and we can claim from the basic hypothesis of classical economics, the dissertations of rational anticipation and game theory, the views of behavioral economics, experimental economics, psychological economics and nerve cell economics to confirm the philosophical aspects that the objective economic rules independent from subjective factors do not exist. The fifth part analyzes the Chinese traditional idea and system of management of economy from the point of view of the comparison of culture of science in China and the West. It proves that the system of inner demonstration is the feature and the soul of the Chinese traditional system of demonstration in the idea of management of economy. The prime of Chinese traditional idea of management is that we should first supervise ourselves and then supervise others, this in turn connect tightly with the system and method inner demonstration. Anyone who cannot supervise himself/herself does not have the minimum qualification to supervise other people, while most of the theories of management in the West propose how to supervise others. The sixth part gives us some practical examples which indicate that economy, even society, can develop harmoniously only when it follows most people's anticipation. Any economic guide that does not obey most people's anticipation will cause inharmoniousness. We should build harmonious society according to most people's anticipation. Therefore, we should not only make policies and rules but also build harmonious society according to the subjective will (anticipation) of the majority people.
Keywords/Search Tags:Subjective Will, Rational Expectation, Quantum Physics, Positivism, System of Inner demonstration
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