自新古典经济学研究范式确立之后,特别是自弗里德曼等将逻辑实证主义引入到经济学以来,自然科学的研究方法就开始主导了经济学的研究,而方法论的探究则日渐式微;即使20世纪70年代以来经济学的研究内容已经发生了巨大改变,现代主流经济学依然不愿对方法论进行实质性探讨,以致20世纪80年代曾经在西方复兴的方法论思潮又逐渐湮息了。究其原因有二:一者,迄今为止的方法论探究还主要停留在画地为牢的批判层面,因而没有对经济学的研究和教学提供多少有用的东西;二者,现代主流经济学已经日益教条化和功利化,那些掌握学术资源的主流为了维护自身地位而不愿接受新思维的挑战。 Since the establishment of the paradigm of new classical economics, especially since Friedman introduced logical positivism to economics, the research methods of natural science have begun to dominate the study of economics, and the methodology has been gradually neglected. Even though the study of economics has undergone tremendous changes since the 1970s, the modern mainstream economics is still reluctant to substantively study the methodology. As a result, the trend of methodology in the revival of the Western world in the 1980s has gradually diminished. There are two reasons for this: one is that the methodological inquiry hitherto still mainly lies in the critique of the dilemma of drawing pictures and therefore does not provide much useful things for the study and teaching of economics; both, the modern mainstream economics has become more and more dogmatic Utilitarian, those who master the academic resources in order to maintain their own status and unwilling to accept the new challenge of thinking.