On the evening of October 24, a unique cloud reading party was held in Shanghai. At the scene of offline activities, considering epidemic prevention factors, the number of people is strictly limited; the online meeting is broadcast live synchronously by the two platforms of Chonghu Academy (Xiao Goose Tong) and the Teachers' Board, with a crowded audience, a collision of views, and a warm Q&A. The theme of the book club is: the new book "Farewell, Western Economics - China's Plan for Building a Community of Destiny" (hereinafter referred to as the "Farewell" book) and the commentary articles published by the magazine "Expo Books".
(Cover of "Farewell, Western Economics: China's Plan for Building a Community of Shared Destiny")
In recent years, in order to help students develop the habit of reading classics and thinking deeply, Professor Zhu Guohua of the Law School of Tongji University has used the scholar resources of the Pujiang Rule of Law Forum to hold cloud reading clubs from time to time with Chonghu College as a platform, forming a good academic and social response. The reading meeting was presided over by Zhu Guohua, vice chairman and secretary general of pujiang rule of law forum and president of Chonghu College, hosted by Pujiang Rule of Law Forum, undertaken by Chonghu College, co-organized by Tongji University Economic Policy and Law Research Center, Tongji University Freshman College Jishi Xuetang, Tongji Shisheng Education Alliance, and supported by Expo Magazine, Shanghai Tongxin Jishi Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Legal Affairs Information Technology Co., Ltd., Super Eye Eye Li Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd., and Yanrui Xueyuan. The organizers presented the latest magazine "Expo Books" to the Jishi Xuetang of Tongji University's Freshman College.
(Professor Zhu Guohua presided over the cloud reading club)
At this cloud reading meeting, Mr. Ouyang Junshan delivered a keynote speech. He noted:
Marx said: "Once 'thought' is divorced from interests, it will certainly make itself ugly." "In philosophy and social science, economics is closely related to the operation of human society, closely related to the interests of everyone, and the most realistic. Engels said that "the whole theory of the proletarian party comes from the study of political economy"; Lenin also took political economy as the "deepest, most comprehensive and most detailed proof and application" of Marxist theory. Theoretical innovations with practical significance should not be separated from political economy, and just like Capital, we should also start from the criticism of political economy.
The author of the criticism of Western economics is probably None other than Marx. Although Western economics is now highly mathematical, Marx criticized the problems of "the same sound", such as polarization and the economic crisis caused by polarization. Because of this, since the financial tsunami triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis, there has been a global trend of rethinking economics, and Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman published a long article in September 2009 titled "Why Economics Is So Wrong" As a social science, Western economics has been refined for nearly three hundred years, why is it "so wrong"? This is an important context in which we propose "goodbye" Western economics. As Keynes pointed out in the preface to The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, "If orthodox economics is wrong, its disease will not be in its superstructure, but in its premises are not clear enough and not universal enough, and the superstructure is always logically rarely reprehensible." ”
- The gaze ritual is the inability to cycle "self-" evidence, that is, an argument cannot be established simply through self-circulation without the aid of external factors. Gaze is the mirror of the other person being "me.". Truth has always been only common sense, and the so-called science is only the systematization of common sense. This is as commented by Lu Zhoulai, a professor of political economy at the National Defense University: "Remember that Thomas Huxley said that science is to systematize what ordinary people believe, and major scientific breakthroughs may start with very simple ideas, but good science will grind it into a coherent grinding stone - this is exactly what the doctrine of attention etiquette does." ”
The reason why the theory of attention etiquette is "goodbye" to Western economics is precisely because the concept of attention etiquette shakes the starting point of the most basic human nature foundation of the premise of Western economics, and completes the theoretical abstraction of human nature that Western economics should have completed a long time ago, but has not yet been completed in reality, which can be summarized into two points: One abstracts people to "I", no longer talks about the so-called individual or person in the air like Western economics, but replaces it with a living real personality "I"; one abstracts human interests to "between people". The "comparative interest" is no longer as narrow as in Western economics, which sets the pursuit of human needs in order to maximize utility (wealth), but instead replaces it with a more inclusive and realistic interpersonal comparative interest.
The book "Farewell" argues that there are two kinds of interests in the market: individual interests and overall interests. Individual interests are all masters, and each individual naturally acts as the master of his own individual interests, and is on duty to take care of his own individual interests. The real breakthrough of the book is not only to demonstrate the indispensable and inseparable interests of the whole, but also to recognize that the interests of the whole must also be reduced to an inseparable body like individual interests, to achieve "ownership in place", the so-called "clear property rights", in classical Chinese terms, the essence of the overall interests "great unification". That is to say, the overall interest property rights are clear and unified, constituting an indispensable premise of the market, and then the liberalization of individual interests, the only way is the real market. Western economics only emphasizes the liberalization of individual interests, and lacks the premise of the unity of overall interests, resulting in the free market becoming a "commons tragedy". China's road is in line with the premise of the unification of the overall interests, and the reform and opening up has decompressed the pursuit of maximizing individual interests.
(Ouyang Junshan in his speech.) File photo)
In order to express the advocacy and support for theoretical innovation, the 10th issue of the "Expo Group Book" magazine in 2021 gave special "attention" to Ouyang Junshan's theory of attention etiquette, launched the special topic of "Cultural Three-Person Talk: Cold Attention to the Etiquette Theory", and concentrated on three book reviews - "Why "Farewell" Western Economics by Professor Ruan Dexin of Xiamen University of Technology, "The Theory of Attention Etiquette Is Broken in the Casserole and Asked "Boiled" in the End", "Han Liyong, Special Researcher of the New Media Think Tank of the People's Network". Tell me the stuff of the West."
(Cover of the 10th issue of The 2021 "Expo Books" magazine published the book review topic of "Farewell, Western Economics - China's Plan for Building a Community of Destiny")
Mr. Ruan Dexin, Deputy Director of the Credit Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Vice President of the Beijing Credit Society, and Professor of Xiamen University of Technology, pointed out in the article "Why "Farewell" Western Economics":
This is a book that rejects mainstream Western economics. Although the book takes the eye-catching ceremony as a "diamond diamond", it is precisely the old problem of mainstream economics - resource allocation, which does not surpass mainstream economics in other aspects, but has an existing view of resource allocation that is different from mainstream economics.
—— This is also a book that explores the integration of East and West. Economics was originally imported from the West, and because of this, in the financial literature of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, chinese classical wisdom is often heroic and useless, and even classic famous sentences are not useful. The book quotes a common saying: "It is difficult to draw a tiger and paint a skin, and it is difficult to draw a bone, and it is difficult to know the face of the person but not the heart." The book reads: "Not only because of the recognition of the highest price, but also because 'it is difficult to know the face of the person to know the heart', the truth and falsity of the demand belongs to the internal motivation, not the external appearance, the high price must intentionally or unintentionally ignore the question of whether the bidder is the real demand, resulting in speculators taking advantage of the gap." "It surprised me, but I felt the cross-border access.
The book argues that the "clarity of property rights" of mainstream economics is the same as the ancient "great unification" of China. The book reads: "All 'we' can be divided by the blade of interest, only the two 'ours' are not counted as 'owner in place', and the only 'mine' is in place." The essence of clear property rights does not lie in the private ownership of the owners in place, but in the 'great unity' of the inseparable interests of the whole, and the clarity of property rights is the great unity. The real name of a private enterprise is 'great unification enterprise', and the key point is to unify, not to be private, and it is the great unification that has to be 'lifted' by a certain private person. "This is very brain-burning, at first listen, let people feel that the wind and horses are out of reach, but carefully considered, the argument has a sense of simplicity.
——The concept of the eye-catching ceremony is a concept that is easy to take for granted, and when you look at the book, you will find that the attention ceremony is "old bottle of new wine", the meaning is extremely simple, that is, it cannot be self-evidenced by circulation, which is the most basic logical common sense. So why call the meaning of not being able to loop self-justification a gaze ritual? It is understood that there are different views on the title of the gaze ceremony. Direct claims can not be cyclic self-evidence, a bit long. If you don't call it a gaze ceremony, what is it called? From the perspective of people's psychological needs, from the perspective of behavior, the name of the gaze ceremony is more graphic, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Sin also expressed his suggestions directly on the book: I do not quite agree with the word "goodbye", and saying goodbye may be more conducive to dissemination. But academically, I personally recommend using the common word of Marxist philosophy , "abandonment." This is actually in line with the author's original intention, because the book clearly mentions that the theory of attention etiquette uses the logic, methods, tools, and even concepts, concepts, and concepts of Western economics to distinguish Western economics from itself, and the essence is also the development and innovation of Western economics.
Mr. Zhu Guohua, Ph.D. in Economics of Fudan University, Postdoctoral Fellow in Law of Chinese Min University, Professor of Economic Law of Tongji University, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of Pujiang Rule of Law Forum, and Dean of Chonghu College, pointed out through the article "Attention to etiquette theory is to break the casserole and ask the end of the "boiling" out":
——Mr. Junshan's Theory of Eye-Catching Etiquette is a subversive original system of thought. If you talk about originality or even subversion, it really happens once in decades or even hundreds of years. Even from the perspective of history, the real innovation of the humanities and social sciences is actually a phoenix. But the theory of attention is really a bit "evil" wild, not only original, but also subversive, and indeed "creating a system".
The book has many original and subversive highlights. Typical such as "I" logic, as a theory of thought, attention to etiquette theory like a novel, has its own subject protagonist - "I", Mr. Junshan believes that this is a fundamental breakthrough, the individual is not the abstract completion of man, as a real and concrete personality, "I" is the abstract completion of man, "I" is everyone, "I" is everyone, there is actually no one in the world, only "I", people are all "I". Another example is the "limiting system", which is a very important original highlight of the book, which believes that the limited system is the natural premise of the free market, because the optimal allocation of resources is originally a problem within the limiting system. Another example is "the interest of the whole", which is also an extremely important original highlight of the book, which thoroughly defines the interest of the whole from the root of human nature, and discusses the four characteristics of the interest of the whole - indispensable, indivisible, extremely single and a priori. In the General Theory of Economic Law class, I praised Mr. Junshan's exquisite explanation of the overall interests many times and included it in my bibliography of special topics in economic law. Such microscopic highlights are numerous in the book.
——The two highlights of the book at the macro level are believed to have also opened the eyes of any humanities and social science scholar in the market. One is that it integrates economics and political science seamlessly, and there is no boundary between economics and political science at all. Usually, we also talk about crossing the boundaries of economics and political science, and even the discipline of "political economy", but compared with the seamless integration of economics and political science in the book, the book uses the interest logic of economics to completely cross the boundary between fusion economics and political science. In fact, it is not a leap across the integration, the focus on etiquette is "original thinking", originally there is no distinction between political science and economics, there is no such thing as leapfrogging and integration. The second is that it seamlessly integrates "ancient and modern China and the West", and the ideological boundaries between ancient and modern China and the West have disappeared. Attention to the theory of etiquette is an all-encompassing grand system of thought, there is a diagram, called ""I" interest value maximization journey, I call it "tiantu", from the sky map can be felt, the two major ideological systems of the East and the West are constructed by the logic of interests, but the interest logic of Eastern thought is more thorough, so it is more basic than Western thought, Western thought can be used as a special case of Eastern thought, in the terminology of the philosophy of science, the Western ideological system is "falsified" by the theory of etiquette, just like in the natural sciences. Newtonian classical mechanics was pseudo-Einstein's relative argument, the theory of relativity was more general, and classical mechanics was only a special case of relativity.
For a long time, the two major ideological systems of the East and the West have been considered to be very different, and since globalization, because the West has a strong gun, the Eastern thought has been considered backward, and the Western thought has been considered advanced, which is the so-called "universal value". Popular views also include: Western thought talks about the individual, Eastern thought emphasizes the collective; Western thought is known for logic, and Eastern thought lacks logic. This kind of stream of views, with the use of the eye ritual doctrine, has become a rumor or even a joke. Typical such as the overall relationship of the individual, the theory of attention etiquette with "I" as the protagonist, is obviously about the individual, but because it cannot be recycled to prove itself, the essence of man is social, and the individual is originally an individual under the whole. After this illumination, the individualism of Western thought, especially the "atomized" form in which it falls, is in essence superficial and naïve; Chinese thought does not talk about the individual, but accurately grasps the social nature of man, and accurately talks about the individual under the whole, which is true individualism. Taking the "great unification" as an example, it is generally believed that the great unification is unique to Chinese civilization, but the book believes that Western thought also contains and pursues the great unification, and the great unification is determined by the inherent desire for the sameness of human nature (attention ceremony), which is naturally human nature and natural selection. The problem is that the West has not achieved great unification in reality, and it has no choice but to become a "small unification."
As the only basic concept of the theory of the eye-catching ceremony, the eye-catching ceremony did not fall from the sky or come out of the ground, but Mr. Junshan broke the casserole and asked the end of the "boiling". This courageous and diligent truth-seeking cultivation was transformed into a cognitive method by Junshan, which he called "pure inner vision." I read one of his articles titled "One Question Till Tuk, Demolished the Field Snail House", which gave a brief introduction to pure internal vision. In this respect, the doctrine of the ritual of attention is entirely in keeping with the inner spirit of the natural sciences.
In the case of "social contract theory", which is an important foundation of modern Western political science (Rousseau wrote an important book called "Social Contract Theory"), if shaken, the entire edifice of Western political science will be destroyed. But to pay attention to the doctrine of etiquette is to unequivocally shake the theory of the social contract. The crux of the matter is "me." The social contract theory does not start from "me" and inadvertently assumes that the transaction cost is zero, but in fact, a society wants to "act collectively" and even reach a contract, not only has a cost, but also a very high cost, and the difficulty is no less than "great unification". The social contract theory essentially implies the premise of great unity, but Western political science does not really deal with great unity, which is the confusion, confusion, and absurdity caused by not thinking from the perspective of "me" (see "Farewell" Chapter 21 "The Great Unity of Natural Selection").
-- The theory of attention is not a theoretical vase that explains the world, but a theoretical weapon capable of transforming the world, facing the entire human race and facing the future of mankind, which has very important practical value. From the book alone, the most obvious is that it can solve a series of problems in the economic field, concentrated in one point, that is, the balance of the economic system. Western economics has been talking about resource allocation for nearly three hundred years, but it has not really explained how the free market allocates resources. The book argues that the system of limitation is the natural premise of the free market, and the most fundamental reason why there are such problems in the economic field is that the free market is detached from the natural premise of the system of limitation. The sixth part of the book takes China's property market as an example and elaborates on the operation of the real free market. I feel that the limiting system is indeed the most fundamental and economical and symptomatic cure for the diseases of the present era, and every strategy can be derived from this. Mr. Zhou Ruijin, the chief writer of the "Huang Fuping" commentary and the former deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily, said: "This book is unexpected and completely new to explain the Chinese road, or fundamentally solve the problem of Chinese discourse. "I totally agree.
Han Liyong, a special researcher of the New Media Think Tank of the People's Network, pointed out in the article "Explaining Western Things Thoroughly":
The book puts the real estate problem to the letter. The reform of the real estate market has been nearly thirty years, and it has always been a serious concern of the people, but how to determine the house price, how to calculate the reasonable house price, and how to build a healthy real estate market, this kind of is like the "Goldbach conjecture", no one can say clearly. The book is not originally about housing prices, but about how the free market allocates resources, but is an example of a real estate market that is close to daily life. The second part of the book, "The Logic of the Market: Freedom in the Limiting System", starts from the analysis of "the highest price is obtained", and through the discussion of speculation, it is demonstrated that freedom has a directional goal, that is, the direction of resource allocation optimization, until the optimal goal of resource allocation - equilibrium, and then concludes: the market is the market of the "limited system", and the limited system is an indispensable premise of the free market. The logic here is step-by-step, and it is highly consistent with common sense.
The book explains the problem of China's roads. When I read it, I felt that the book had no distinction between economics and political science, or that it was a seamless blend of economics and political science. Why? There are three points worth saying: First, the book cuts into the problem of resource allocation, resource allocation is the "original core" (original + core) problem of human social operation, and there is no distinction between economics and political science. Secondly, according to the logical analysis of the book, the overall interest relationship of individuals is the core of resource allocation, which also has no distinction between economics and political science. Third, the most important, is the fifth part of the book, "The Logic of Government: For the Interests of the Whole", which defines "clear property rights" through the discussion of the interests of the whole. The author believes that the clarity of property rights in Western economics is the same as the ancient unity of China, that is, the inseparable overall interests have to be attributed to a single "I" that cannot be dismantled. This is unexpected, but it is in line with common sense.
The doctrine of attention to etiquette actually constructs a larger framework of thought, not to deny Western things, but to explain Western things thoroughly.
——If we talk about genre, the book is more like an essay on ideas that is sandwiched between narratives and discussions, hand-to-hand, vertical and horizontal, scattered and concentrated, unlike ordinary academic works, which make people respect and stay away, but very grounded.
At this cloud reading conference, experts and scholars, including the three authors of the "Expo Group Books" column, and online and offline listeners, commented. Tang Zhengjie, a teacher at Foshan Institute of Science and Technology, believes that the theory of eye-catching etiquette belongs to a breakthrough original ideological system and should not be treated as a general academic norm, "I am convinced that there will be more and more people of insight who will soon complete the process from surprise to acceptance." Some students of the Law School of Tongji University also left messages, believing that the theory of attention to etiquette has another way to help them open up new worlds of thinking.
As the curator of the column "Cultural Three-Person Talk: Cold Attention to the Doctrine of Etiquette", Dong Shanfeng, senior reporter of Guangming Daily and editor-in-chief of the "Expo Group Book", talked about his original intention of planning: General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "contemporary China is experiencing the most extensive and profound social changes in China's history, and is also undergoing the most grand and unique practical innovation in human history." This unprecedented great practice will certainly provide a strong driving force and broad space for theoretical creation and academic prosperity. This is an era in which theories are needed and must be able to produce them, an age in which ideas are needed and must be able to be produced. In recent years, although the theoretical innovations in philosophy and social sciences have made considerable achievements, in reality, we have to admit that the situation pointed out by the general secretary that "reason cannot be said and cannot be spread" has not fundamentally changed. The general secretary has also stressed many times that innovation does not ask about origin, heroes do not care about provenance, in scientific research, regardless of seniority, no threshold, to eliminate the influence of non-academic factors. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to theoretical innovation, and we must not underestimate the difficulty of innovation, and innovative theories need us to actively discover and take care of them. In the early days of innovation theory, there were all kinds of imperfections, which is an inevitable phenomenon, and we must use a good study style to guide theoretical innovation to stand out in the process of discovering innovation, encouraging innovation, and supporting innovation, and play a due role in the development and progress of the country. (Xie Ning)