强化劳动法是遏制经济下行的必然选择，可以促进经济持续发展。

捍卫劳动法就是捍卫人的尊严！保卫劳动法就是保卫我们的社会！

《全球经济下行背景下劳动法之选择》内容提要：

2008年以来，全球经济持续下行。全球经济下行的直接原因是欧美国家长期被金融泡沫掩盖的生产过剩暴露出来，进而暴露了亚洲国家长期被出口掩盖的生产过剩，其实质是低工资导致消费能力不足。而量化宽松、放松规制以及降低工资和裁员，非但没有解决经济下行问题，反而加剧需求不足。因此，当下宜效仿罗斯福新政而非里根主义。

劳动法客观上能够促进企业持续发展，有利于促进消费从而实现供求平衡，可以保障公平竞争与社会和谐。因此，不仅不能放松制，反而应该强化规制。目前应进一步限制固定期限劳动合同，强化工作时间执法，提高劳动者工资，增加劳动者就业，从而解决消费能力不足和消费滞后的问题；通过工资集体谈判，解决劳动者因收入过低而无钱消费的问题，即通过提高工资扩大内需，部分解决生产过剩、消费能力不足的问题；通过职工民主参与等方式，完善公司治理，解决高管天价年薪问题，缩小收入差距，提高消费能力。

关于《劳动合同法》的相关质疑，特别是“对企业的保护不足”、“劳动力市场僵化”、“劳动力成本过高”、“应该退回到《劳动法》”等观点，都是缺乏根据、经不起推敲的。

1. 在自然状态下自由放任时，劳动者与用人单位之间是主仆关系，而劳动法就是要打破主仆关系。简言之，在劳动法领域中，我们要讨论的是如何限制企业人力资源管理权以保护劳动者，不存在保护企业的问题，也没有所谓的“倾斜保护”问题。

2. 《劳动合同法》之所以如此限制所谓“灵活性”、稳定劳动关系，是因为劳动法运行中漏洞很多、实践中企业违法和规避法律的现象严重。

3. 中国企业的经营成本确实高，但主要高在其他成本，而非劳动力成本。一是制度性交易成本，二是税费成本，三是资金成本，四是能源原材料成本，五是土地成本，六是汇率成本，七是物流成本。

4.《劳动法》是计划经济刚刚打破时制定的，计划经济痕迹非常明显，而《劳动合同法》是在市场经济发展了十多年的情况下制定的，更为适应市场经济的需要。

----全球经济下行背景下劳动法之选择——兼评《劳动合同法》的相关质疑（《探索与争鸣》2016年第8期）

Address at Harvard Department of Economics

SPEAKER: LIU Cheng (Shanghai Normal University)

TITLE: "Thoughts on the Economics of Innovation: Human Capital and the Global Financial Crises"

TIME: Thursday 12/3 @ 2pm

LOCATION: NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave, 3rd floor, Cambridge (check in with receptionist)

ORGANIZED BY: ec2342 China Economy Seminar

ABSTRACT:

It has been 7 years since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008. Yet there is no glimmer of dawn or hope for the global economy. There must has been something wrong with economic theories.

In my opinion, the principal problems are the imbalance between supply and demand, and the fallacy of free market fundamentalism. As to the imbalance between supply and demand, the net export of Asian countries and Germany covered their overproduction; the inter-reaction of financial bubbles and consumer credit of Europe (except for Germany) and America covered their overproduction and resulted in their over-consuming (excessive consumption). And the imbalanced of international trade covered the imbalance of global economy.

As for the fallacy of free market fundamentalism, the rational market theory encouraged speculations and resulted in financial bubbles and excessive consumer credit, and supply management theory intensified those problems.

Trace the history of economic theories, we can find that one of the founding fathers, William Petty has already found the importance of labor-Labor is the father of wealth.

Now it's time to go over the economic history and the history of economic theories, and return to common sense. We should restart from common sense as well as the common ground of Adam Smith and Karl Marx-labor theory of value. Starting from the common ground of Smith and Marx, we can find the role of creative labor--technological innovation theories of Kondratieff and Schumpeter, and the innovation theory of management of Smith-division of labor is a kind of innovation of management.

The economic growth are mainly from creative labor, which should not go to employers only, but should be shared by both employers and employees.

http://economics.harvard.edu/event/ec-2342-china-economy-seminar-16

----哈佛大学经济系及国家经济研究局演讲（2015年12月3日于剑桥）