司马迁的"与时俯仰"经济观

司马迁以现实主义的态度对待商品经济,提出了"与时俯仰,获其赢利"的经济观;主张"随时而逐利",赞扬士农工商的致富,并根据他们致富的情况,将其区分为"本富"、"末富"和"奸富",这是司马迁的首创;他还将西汉的经济政策分为五等,最好的政策是"善者因之",将国家干预政策视之为"最下者",这在经济思想史上有积极意义。

Sima Qian's Economic View of "Going with the Time"

Sima Qian took a realistic attitude towards commodity economy. He put up an economic view of "going with the time and extract its benefit," and advocated "pursuing interests in time. " He praised the wealth of scholars, farmers, artisans and merchants, and divided them into "the decent rich", "the commercial rich" and "the malicious rich" according to their way of gaining wealth, which was Sima Qian's innovation. He also divided the economic policy of Western Han Dynasty into five classes, in which the best one was "going well in reality", while "the lowest way" was the state-intervened policy. This way of division made an positive significance in the history of economic ideas.