SAE Political Economy · Prequel: What an Economy Is Not / SAE 政治经济学 前置篇: 经济不是什么

The range of this series is: how the capital, fame, status and qualifications that people accumulate in the Emergence Layer become, in others' decisions, power acting on others; how an institution does not aim at reducing it, but checks how it is used; how the supply undertaken by a construct that does the work of the Base Layer is secured, beyond checks; how growth is not opposed and yet is kept from sliding into colonization; how conditions are given for people's emergence without deciding their direction for them. Before setting to work, this paper first clears away what an economy is not. A newspaper in Apple City ran a headline saying that the Qiao family's assets equal three hundred years of wages for the whole town of Bluekiln; of two letters from readers, one said that the gap itself is an injustice, the other that the Qiao family had not taken a single coin from Bluekiln; a Crossways spokesperson said that what Crossways is worth is given by the market. Each of these three statements answers a question, and none of them is the one this series asks. An economy is not only capital: fame, status, qualifications and attention are in it too, while reputation is not among the things accumulated. Capital is not the source of power; power lies in the position that can mobilize accumulation. The market is not a super-subject that takes responsibility; "the market set it" cannot answer on behalf of a position that actually made a decision. Economic power is not another kind of power: one and the same recognition-based position shows a power-face when it actually converges others; so this series does not take distributional outcomes as its end point, nor does it let a comparison of wealth issue the status quo a certificate of innocence. The cut is by source, not by public and private: granted power and accumulated power are each subject to their own checks, and one position can have both sources. The ought is addressed to constructs, whatever their size. The Base Layer is to be secured, the Emergence Layer supported. The sections that follow set out the three layers, how DD is written, and "judge the operation, not the person," settle the accounts handed over from upstream, and give the papers and the conventions of the whole series. The interfacing with the tradition is made in place at one point: Walzer, in *Spheres of Justice*, asks how a good is kept from going beyond its own sphere; this paper paraphrases him only from a secondary summary, and the relation between the two positions will be written once the original has been examined. This paper sets up no proposition; each of the points it clears away is argued in the papers that follow. 这个系列的射程是:人在涌现层积累起来的资本、名声、地位与资质,怎样在别人的决定里成为作用于他人的权力;制度怎样不以减少它为目的,而是制衡它怎样使用;做基础层之事的构,制衡之外怎样保障它所承担的供给;怎样不反对增长,又不让增长滑向殖民;怎样为人的涌现给条件,不替人定方向。动笔之前,这一篇先清出经济不是什么。苹果城一家报纸登出标题,说乔家的资产相当于青窑镇全镇三百年的工资;两封读者来信,一封说差距本身就是不义,一封说乔家没有拿青窑镇的一分钱;通衢的发言人说,通衢值多少是市场给的。这三种说法各答了一问,都不是这个系列要问的那一件。经济不只是资本,名声、地位、资质、注意力也在其中,声誉却不在积累之列。资本不是权力的源,权力在能调动积累的位置。市场不是会负责的超级主体,"市场定的"不能替一个实际作出决定的位置作答。经济权力不是另一种权力:同一个承认性位置,在实际收敛别人时显出权力面;所以本系列不以分配结果为终点,也不拿一次财富比较为现状发无罪证。按来源切,不按公私切:授予的权力与积累的权力各受各的制衡,一个位置可以两种来源都有。应当说给构,不论大小。基础层要保障,涌现层要支持。其后几节交代三层、DD 的写法与"判操作,不判人",结算上游交来的账,并给出全系列的篇目与体例。与传统的对接随文一处:沃尔泽在《正义诸领域》里问一种善怎样不越出它自己的领域,本篇只据二手概述转述,两说的关系待原文核到以后再写。这一篇不立命题;它清出的几条,各在后面的篇里论证。 Related works Relation Identifier Scheme Resource type Title References 10.5281/zenodo.19328662 DOI Publication / Preprint How Is Institution Possible: From Inter-Ontological Remainder to Co-Constructive Framework (SAE Foundational Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23269330 DOI Publication / Preprint What an Institution Is Not (SAE Institution Theory, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.23269635 DOI Publication / Preprint To Whom the Ought Is Addressed (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270384 DOI Publication / Preprint Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270766 DOI Publication / Preprint Guarding the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23271324 DOI Publication / Preprint Open to Questioning (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23272468 DOI Publication / Preprint Institution Theory and the Tradition: The Address of the Ought (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 0) References 10.5281/zenodo.23411670 DOI Publication / Preprint What a Government Is Not (SAE Theory of Government, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.23413112 DOI Publication / Preprint Guarantee (SAE Theory of Government, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23413511 DOI Publication / Preprint Questioning and Bearing (SAE Theory of Government, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23815796 DOI Publication / Preprint The Close (SAE Theory of Inter-State Cooperation, Paper 8) References 10.5281/zenodo.20368866 DOI Publication / Preprint What Power Is Not · Shi (SAE Power Theory, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.21093939 DOI Publication / Preprint The Interface and Transformation between Recognition-Based Rights and Power (SAE Rights Theory, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.21212595 DOI Publication / Preprint On the Limitation and Violation of Basic Rights (SAE Rights Theory, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.21252863 DOI Publication / Preprint On the Cultivation and Diachronic Unfolding of Rights (SAE Rights Theory, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.22853810 DOI Publication / Preprint On Accountability · Wei (SAE Rights Theory, Specialist Paper) References 10.5281/zenodo.20046168 DOI Publication / Preprint The Reputation Economy · Dao (SAE Moral Law, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.19358010 DOI Publication / Preprint Four Layers of Economic Rationality: A Diagnostic Extension of the Rational Agent from Dimensional Sequence Theory (SAE Economics, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.19384446 DOI Publication / Preprint Dimensional Sequence Economics in Mixed Markets: Remote Observation, Clustering, and Emergence (SAE Economics, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.19394738 DOI Publication / Preprint The Structural Inevitability of 15DD Emergence in Free Markets: From Baseline Collisions to Perceptual Leap (SAE Economics, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.19396633 DOI Publication / Preprint Kingdom of Ends vs Kingdom of Means: Phase-Transition Acceleration in the Age of AI (SAE Economics, Paper 6)