Looking for a new academy

Author: Yu Yuanpei
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Economic philosophy is a newly emerging field of study in China and has attracted significant attention from the theoretical community in recent years. Although this discipline is still in its early stages and various opinions exist regarding its research objects and content, it is generally regarded as an interdisciplinary integration of economics and philosophy, a union of economists and philosophers, with the aim of conducting comprehensive research on major issues arising from contemporary social development. As a highly comprehensive discipline, philosophy has always incorporated elements of natural and social sciences since ancient times, and all empirical sciences later branched out from philosophy. In the West, economics was initially intertwined with philosophy, without strict distinctions between the two. Regarding this point, Marx once said: "Because historically emerged political economy is, in fact, a scientific understanding of the economy during the capitalist production period, the principles and theorems related to it can also be found in the works of ancient Greek society, merely because certain phenomena, such as commodity production, trade, money, and interest-bearing capital, are shared by both societies."