契合是社会科学理论体系建立和发展的基础,但现代经济学的发展却与社会科学其他分支逐渐割裂,从而导致了经济学的日益贫困化。同时,当前的经济学帝国主义运动也是单向度的:一是包括数学、物理学以及生物学等自然科学向经济学单方向扩展,是经济学借鉴甚至搬用这些学科的基本方法;二是经济学根据自己固有的假设将从自然科学搬来的方法再一次扩展到其他社会学科,从而将其他社会科学的传统领域纳入经济学的研究范围。因此,经济学帝国主义运动并不是真正的契合式发展,相反会造成经济学理论进一步狭隘和僵化。
Consilience is the foundation of the establishment and development of theoretical system of social science.However,the development of modern economics gradually separates from other branches of social science,leading to the increasing impoverishment of economics.At the same time,current movement of economics imperialism is also unilateral.Firstly,the natural sciences,including mathematics,physics and biology,unilaterally expand into economics which learns from or even copies the basic methods of these sciences.Secondly,according to inherent assumptions,economics once again introduces the methods copied from natural sciences into other social sciences,thus incorporating other social sciences in economics.Therefore,the movement of economics imperialism is not the right way to achieve consilience;on the contrary,it gives rise to further parochialism and rigidity of economic theories.