摘要
年美国次贷危机所引发的全球"金融风暴"传导到实体经济,导致一场全球性经济危机,中国也未能幸免。这是国人首次以如此深刻的方式了解到占人口多数的中低阶层消费不足对经济的危害。居民消费不足的问题涉及更为根本的社会阶层结构问题。中国长期以来实行的是生产型社会的制度安排,并未做好向消费型社会转型的准备。而导致生产型社会长期得以延续的原因,在于低成本发展战略。本文对这一战略的逻辑及其后果进行了反思,并得出结论:在产能过剩的年代,随着产品市场的地理扩张面临饱和,中国进入了产品市场的社会扩张阶段,为此,必须调整社会阶层结构,摈弃生产主义的人力观,不仅把劳动者当作生产力要素来使用,而且也应把劳动者当作消费者或消费市场来培育,促使生产型社会向消费型社会转型。
The global economic crisis resulting from the USA’s financial crisis in 2008 is also a heavy blow to China’s economy. For the first time this crisis has let the Chinese people experience in such a profoundly way the negative effects of under-consumption by the majority of the low and lower-middle classes. In its essence, the problem of insufficient domestic consumption demands is related to the fundamental problem of the social class structure. For a long period, China’s institutional arrangements are in support of a production-directed society rather than a consumption-directed society, and China is not prepared yet to move toward the latter. What accounts for the persistence of the production-oriented society is the strategy of low-cost development. This paper examines and reflects on the logic and the consequences of such a strategy, and concludes that, in the era of over-production, with geographical expansion of the market approaching to its maximum, China has entered the stage of social expansion of the market. In so doing, China must adjust the social class structure, give up the productionist view of human resources, treat the laborer not only as a productive factor but also as consumers or a consumer market, and thus push the production-directed society toward a consumption-directed society.
出处
《社会》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第2期30-52,共23页
Chinese Journal of Sociology
关键词
生产型社会
消费型社会
低成本发展战略
金融风暴
consumption-directed society, the Financial Storm, production-directed society, strategy of low-cost development
