20世纪中后期,社会发展的显著特征是国家加强了对经济的宏观调控,使经济秩序发展到一个新的水平。像英国这种继续坚持市场经济原则的国家,经济秩序从自由放任的资本主义发展到了受法规限制的资本主义,人们此时所接受的经济思想,不再是最终导致适者生存且不受任何约束的竞争,而是最终导致受公众舆论支持的社会正义的竞争,据此,保护经济上的弱者免遭强者的劫掠成为国家的一项职能。 In the mid-to-late 20th century, the salient feature of social development was that the state stepped up its macro-control over the economy and brought the economic order to a new level. Like Britain, a country that continues to adhere to the principle of a market economy, the economic order has evolved from laissez-faire capitalism to statutory capitalism. The economic thinking accepted by people at this time no longer ultimately leads to survival of the fittest and is not affected by any Restrained competition, but ultimately lead to the competition of social justice supported by the public opinion, according to which the protection of the economic weak from strong strikes became a national function.