论郭嵩焘的经济思想

郭嵩焘是晚清时期积极提倡对内改革、对外开放的先进代表人物之一。在经济主张方面,他在湖南最先倡创厘金;洋务运动中,主张本末并举,反对舍本逐末;主张对外开放,与西方列强"商战";强调"民富",要求政府采取措施以"便民"、"利民"、"裕民",反对官办和官督商办;要求收回海关主权和废止厘金等。其思想独到高远,对其后维新思想的产生和发展具有重要的启迪作用。

On the Economic Ideas of Guo Songtao

Guo Songtao is one of the advanced representatives in late Qing Dynasty to advocate domestic reform and the policy of opening-up to the world. In economical ideas, he was the first to maintain the establishment of tax paid on transported goods. During the Westernization Movement, he promoted the idea of simultaneous development of the fundamental and the incidental. He was also on the side of those for opening-up to the world and for forging business competitions against western powers. He stressed the policy of turning wealthy on the part of the laymen, asking the government to take measures to benefit and enrich the country people and objecting to state-run system or privately-owned system under the government. He stood for resuming the power of the customs and repealing tax paid on transported goods. His original and far-sighted ideas shed much light on the birth and development of the later reformist thoughts.