Study On Qian Sima's Economic Ethics

In the history of our country,Qian Sima is a historian who focuses on people's livelihood and daily life,and economic life early,and the writing method of economic history is followed by later generations.He forms the epistemology of “The economy develops like that water flows downward,which has been tested be nature.” the methodology of “Migration with time,which is a principle.” the material interest value of “Manners develop when economy prospers,otherwise it's abandoned.” and the practice value of “The best way is to let nature take its course.”,through deeply studying and detailed referring the theory of human nature and the concept of justice and interest of scholars in the pre-Qin period.And taking the above theories as philosophical basis,he explores the economic development history as well as its rules since the beginning of history,analyzes,extracts and purifies the economic thoughts of scholars in the pre-Qin period,summarizes the successful experience of economic activity of different times and different-class people,combines the deeply observation and thinking of the social and economic life at that time,which forms the systematical economic ethic thought.Qian Sima thinks that the human desire has always been going forwards,which is the int rinsic motivation of economic development,and all the production and reproduction activities are in order to meet the needs of the people's daily growing material life and spiritual life;pro duction plays a decisive role in the economic development,consumption leads and determines the production,distribution which is the intermediate link of production and consumption sho uld maintain the balance of the interests of all parties in value chains,and the exchange shoul d be equivalent and free by the law of value.Only in this way can we promote healthy econo mic development.It's been argued that countries should follow the law,“the best way is to let nature take its course”,comply with people's consumption demand,encourage people to prod uce and operate in various forms,and reduce the interference in economic activities.Meanwhil e,it's been realized that “material” and “desire” is always a pair of contradictory.He emphasi zes “Let people's desires not be so focused on the material,nor the distribution of material toosubservient to desire”,the production and consumption of material goods should mutually pr omote and restrict each other,so as to prevent excessive extravagance and achieve the social h armony of “all things are appropriate”.Qian Sima's economic ethic thought has various guiding significance to the development of modern economy.In the process of world economic integration,the methodology of “Migration with time” has a great guiding role for China's economic innovation and development,especially for crossing “middle-income trap” after China has become the second largest economy in the world;the epistemology of “The economy develops like that water flows downward,which has been tested be nature.” and the practice value of “The best way is to let nature take its course.” are of great significance to the effective connection between market economy and government function;“If the original resource is broad,people will get rich,otherwise,people poor.” and other basic principles of economic operation still have important implications for expanding the economic layout and cultivating new economic growth points.The production consumption view of “Let people's desires not be so focused on the material,nor the distribution of material too subservient to desire.” not only eradicates the realistic problems in the economic development,has important warning significance for protecting the ecological environment,but also provides a theoretical support for promoting industrial transformation and upgrading,getting rid of the global economic recession,and exploring the path of economic development with Chinese characteristics.Although his economic ethic thought has certain historical limitation,Qian Sima has left us national wisdom,stamina and self-confidence.