On The Emergence And Development Of Western Industrial Economic Thought

It is the responsibility for industrial economic theory workers to study and summarize the historical condition and the law of the emergence and development of western industrial economic thought. Making the economic views, background, status and influence in each historical period of the western industrial development clear helps us to grasp the industrial economic theory well and to utilize the industrial economic theory to instruct the practice well. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze, research and summarize the western industrial thought systematically.Since the reform, more and more economical scholars in China have noted the importance of researching on western industry economic thought. Many scholars have already started or related to this aspect. They made contribution to the research and summary of the history of industrial economic thought in some aspects. But these studies focused on the industrial economic thought after the creation of the traditional industrial economic theory, and rarely involved the origin of industrial economic thought. Moreover, we do not have any systematic literature on the history of western industrial economic thought. Therefore, this article analyzed and researched the law of the emergence and development of western industrial economic thought, and pointed out the enlightenment on the innovation of our industrial economic theory and the establishment of industrial policy.In the study, the author, according with the chronological order, setting out from the historical reality, using the contemporary economic theory, industrial organization theory and other scientific theories, researched the evolvement of western industrial economic thought in longitudinal way. The article divided the western economic thought into three stages. Those are:the germination of western industrial economic thought, the foundation of western industrial economic thought and the formation and development of western industrial economic thought. The article was composed of five parts, and in these parts the author particularly discussed the three stages and their characteristics.In the first part, the article, collecting and analyzing plenty of related data, using the elementary theories of industrial economy, differentiated and analyzed the related concept of industrial economic thought. On the stage of western industrial economic thought, the article discussed the characteristic and divided standard of each stage and pointed out the base of division.In the second part, analyzing lots of economic literatures, the article summarized the state, the role and historical status of germination of western industrial economic thought and tried to point out the emergence and evolution of the thought in this stage.In the third part, the article summarized the previous researches, tried to expound, analyze and summary the industrial economic thought from the perspective of industrial economics and pointed out the influence of the western industrial economic thought in the foundation stage to the establishment of traditional industrial economic theory system.In the forth part, the article, analyzing and summarizing the previous researches, discussed the industrial economic thought in the formation and development stage, pointed out the representative standpoints, views, policies and influence of main schools since the establishment of traditional industrial economic theory system and discussed the developing tendency of industrial economic thought. Finally, the article,researching the emergence and development of western industrial economic thought, combining the state of development of industrial economic and the problems along with the development of industry, pointed out the enlightenment on the innovation of our industrial economic theory and the establishment of industrial policy。...