平等和效率的关系,是一个古老而又崭新的论题。说它古老,因为在人类思想史上,先哲们早就有过许多论述,留下了丰富的思想资料,说它崭新,因为它是当代社会经济生活中最令人关注的热点,国外学者虽已有较广泛的研究,但就我国理论界而言,恐怕还只能说是刚刚起步。长期以来,人们总以为,平等与效率的矛盾是资本主义社会所特有的矛盾,在社会主义社会是不会出现这种矛盾的。可是近年来,随着经济体制改革的深入和商品经济的发展,平等与效率的矛盾似乎是从冥冥世界中钻出来的一个幽灵,游荡在神州大地,困挠着 The relationship between equality and efficiency is an old and brand new topic. It is ancient, because in the history of human thought, the philosophers have long had many expositions and left a wealth of ideological data saying that it is brand new because it is the most interesting hot spot in contemporary social and economic life. Although foreign scholars have There is a wide range of studies, but for our theoretical community, I am afraid I can only say that it has just started. For a long time, people always think that the contradiction between equality and efficiency is a unique contradiction in capitalist society, and this contradiction will not arise in socialist society. However, in recent years, with the deepening of the reform of the economic system and the development of the commodity economy, the contradiction between equality and efficiency appears to be a specter that has been drilled out of the realm of somewhere in the world,