《经济研究》四十岁了。作为该刊一名长时期内的编者和作者,作为一名自它创刊以来的读者,我衷心地祝贺它的诞辰。四十年来,我同它共度了无数个默默耕耘的日日夜夜,既同它共享过腾飞时的喜悦,又为它分担过挫折时的忧伤。这种难解难分的情绪,驱使我应编者之约,提笔写下几点希望。 一、希望它成为经济学界更好地开展百家争鸣、推动经济学发展的园地 学术的发展需要各种不同观点的讨论、切磋和争鸣,这是已经被古今中外的实践所反复证明了的正确道路,而且早在五十年代就已作为党的方针而加以肯定。《经济研究》在开展百家争 “Economic Research” is forty years old. As a longtime editor and author of the journal, as a reader since its inception, I sincerely congratulate it on its birth. Over the past 40 years, I have spent countless hours and nights working with it, sharing both the joy of taking off and the sadness it has shared in setbacks. This kind of indecipherable emotions, urging me to be editor of the treaty, pen and write a few wishes. First, it is hoped that it will become a forum for academics to better understand and promote the development of economics. The discussion, discussion and debate of various points of view require the correct approach that has been repeatedly proved by the practice both at home and abroad. It was also affirmed as the party’s policy as early as the fifties. “Economic Research” is carrying out one hundred disputes