演化经济学中的生物学隐喻——合理性、相似性与差异性

生物学隐喻对演化经济学的发展起着重要的启示性意义。这种借用之所以可能,是因为演化经济学和生物进化论看待事物的基本理念均建立在反类型论思维的基础上。但由于研究对象和类比物本身的差异,生物学隐喻在经济学中的运用只能是开发式的和有意识的,而不能是盲目的和教条式的。归根到底,人类的生物性和经济生活的系统决定了隐喻的相似性,而人类的创造性适应能力又决定了隐喻的差异性。

Biological Metaphor in Evolutional Economics: Reason, Similarity and Difference

The biological metaphor has a significance of revelation for the development of evolutional economics. It is possible that because the fundamental ideas of evolutional economics and the theory of biological evolution in looking at things are all established on the basis of an anti-genre mind. But because of the difference of research objects and analogue things themselves, the implementation of biological metaphor in economics could only be of development and consciousness, instead of blindness and dogma. In the final analysis, the system of human biological nature and their economical life determine the similarity of metaphor, while the adaptive ability of human creativity determines the difference of metaphor.