Analysis of Lao Tzu's Financial Thinking from "When I Forebear, the People Will Prosper"
Abstract
Lao Tzu’s fiscal thinking runs through the Tao Te Ching and is a concentrated expression of Huang-Lao Taoism’s economic thought. Lao Tzu’s political outlook and financial outlook are in the same vein and rely on each other, and the finance of Lao Tzu’s era is not comparable with modern finance, but the financial concept embodied in Lao Tzu’s idea of “When I forebear, the people will prosper” is worthy of our deep consideration. This article mainly uses literature analysis, empirical analysis, and comparative analysis, and the research concludes that Lao Tzu’s idea of “self-prosperity” has produced different effects in different contexts, but in general, under the premise of combining the background of the times, the reform of “ruling without doing anything” can indeed play a great role in the country’s economic development.
References
- Chen Yi. Lectures on “Tao Te Ching”[M]. Nanjing Southeast University Press:, 201702.251.
- Wang Yanrong. On Lao Tzu’s Fiscal Thought[J]. Journal of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics (Higher Education Edition), 2002, (S1): 141.
- Roberts Moss. The Analects: Conclusions and Conversations of Confucius[M].University of California Press:2020-10-30.
- Confucius, C. C. Tsai,Brian Bruya,Michael Puett. The Analects: An Illustrated Edition[M].Princeton University Press:2018-01-01.
- Estate The Arthur Waley, Waley Arthur. The Analects of Confucius[M]. Taylor and Francis:2012-11-12.
- Zhang Xiujiao. On the Thought of Economic Freedom of the Pre-Qin Dynasty[J]. Shandong Economics,2007,(02):39-42.
- High continuation. A Prosperous Society Arrived by Chance: The Reign of Wenjing and Its End[J]. The Banker, 2004, (06): 135-137.
- Zhao Menghan. On Financial Policy and Governance of Cultural Scenery in the Early Western Han Dynasty[J]. Journal of University of Petroleum (Social Science Edition), 2002, (02): 61-64.
- Zhao Mairu. Ecological interpretation of pre-Qin Zhuzi economic thought[D]. Northwest University,2007.
- Can China’s economic reform escape the law of rise and fall of history? National New Bibliography,2013,(11):60-62.
- Guo Yanqing. Understanding the optimal fiscal revenue scale by drawing on pre-Qin fiscal thought[J]. Finance and Accounting Monthly, 2009, (06):84-86.