吴晓求认为,把现代金融看作是经济运行的轴心,是基于以下理由: 第一,随着经济的发展,人类的财富越来越虚拟化,或者说越来越金融化。金融资产在全社会中所占的比重逐步提高,这就意味着财富的物质形态越来越淡化了,在20世纪前半叶,人们的财富是特质化的,表现为房屋、土地、及其他各种物质财富。现在,人们的财富越来越虚拟化、符号化、金融化了。试想,如果全球资产50%至70%是以金融资产的形 Wu Xiaoqiu believes that taking modern finance as the axis of economic operation is based on the following reasons: First, as the economy develops, human wealth becomes more and more virtualized, or more and more financialized. The gradual increase in the share of financial assets in society as a whole has meant that the material form of wealth has been increasingly diminished. In the first half of the twentieth century, people’s wealth was characterized by housing, land, and other Material wealth. Now, people’s wealth is more and more virtualized, symbolized and financialized. Imagine if 50% to 70% of global assets are shaped by financial assets