"虚拟经济"的哲学思考

关于"虚拟经济"的讨论,并不是一个单纯的经济学问题,同时也是哲学问题.我认为作为一门学问,用"模拟经济"比用"虚拟经济"的概念,可能更好一些.模拟是人类实践活动中能动性发展的必然结果,从文字到文化、艺术,以至到经济活动,都是人们模拟客观世界,同时又改造客观世界的结果.模拟经济在形式上是"虚拟"的,在内容上是客观的,它最终受实体经济制约.

Philosophical Consideration of Virtual Economy

The debate over virtual economy is not simply an economic issue but at the same a philosophical one. As a discipline, I tend to prefer to use the notion of simulated economy to that of virtual economy. Stimulation is an inevitable consequence brought by the initiative development in human's social practice. From words to culture and art, and even to economic activities, they are the consequences brought by human efforts to stimulate the objective world as well as remake it. Stimulated economy is virtual in its form but objective in its content. It is eventually restricted by entity economy.