Warring States Period, The Agriculture And Restraining Business Concepts

Advocating the development of agriculture but restraining the development of industry and commerce theory is our country's traditional economic theory. Over the past 2,000 years, our country belongs to feudal society. This theory plays a controlling role by ruling class managing national economical operation, with an extremely great impact on historical development of our country. Advocating the development of agriculture but restraining the development of industry and commerce theory took shape in the Warring States Period and had relations with the change of Productivity and Relations of production. As an important period in china's history, The Warring States Period, has offered abundant historical events and economical, political and culture background for us to research this theory.This text tries to describe the theory of restraining the industry and commerce and advocating agriculture, based the research results of scholars in the past.Firstly, this text has reviewed main representative and main view about this theory. From The Spring and Autumn Period to The Warring States Period, There had so many thinkers talking about this theory, such as Mozi, Likui, Shangyang, Xunzi, Hanfei and so on. Through comparing their main views, we can have a concrete understanding and assurance about this theory.Secondly, this text talks about the reasons of this theory. In line with historical materialism view, we think the theory of advocating the development of agriculture but restraining the development of industry and commerce comes from the contradictive function of Productivity and Relations of production. Especially, we explained Commodity economy's function and influence on Natural economy.Thirdly, we describe the main views about the theory of advocating the development of agriculture but restraining the development of industry and commerce, including the relations of Era background and this theory, the relations of Agriculture and Industry and Commerce, the relations of Commodity economy and Natural economy, and how to encourage peasant to work hard. Meanwhile, wesummarize a series of economic policies belonging to this theory.Finally, this paper describes the Class' nature and historical action of this theory. This theory reflects the landlord class' economical and political require. According to historical action, on one hand, we admit the positive role of this theory in specific historical period; on the other hand, we should see its negative effect in china's history.There have two purposes in this paper, one is more systematically summarize the theory of advocating the development of agriculture but restraining the development of industry and commerce; the another one is offering an angle of history to appraise the realistic economic theory and economic question of reality.