Whither Economic Studies in China?: A Comment on Professor Jia Genliang's "Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform".

In socialist China today, neoliberal economics has actually come to wield institutionalized hegemonic power in academic evaluations of economic studies, while in neoliberal America, there is actually considerably more pluralism in the practice of academic evaluations of economic studies. The origins of this state of affairs lie not in just a simple matter of ideology or policy choices, but rather in different tendencies in the actual practices of two different systems of governance. While China leans strongly toward centralized bureaucratism, along with scientism and numericalism, the U.S. leans more toward multi-centered pluralistic practices. What scholarship needs is pluralistic contentions for sustained long-term development. 摘要 在社会主义的中国，如今新自由主义经济学居然已经占到制度化了的学术霸权地位；而在自由主义的美国，反倒展示相当程度多元化的学术评估实践。究其根本，来源不在简单的意识形态或某种决策，而在强烈的体系化运作倾向。前者倾向集中的官僚主义、"科学主义"和数据化主义运作，后者则比较倾向多元化的实际运作。学术需要的是多元争鸣的实际运作才会具有长远的生命力。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]