管子的经济思想,有着丰富的内容。例如,他对消费的认识以及对生产、积储与消费之间的相互关系的论述,直到两千多年以后的今天,还能给我们以启发和教益。这里举其一二。管子提倡节俭和积蓄,反对奢靡。他说:“国侈则用费,用费则民贫,民贫则奸智生,奸智生则邪巧作。故奸邪之所生,生于匮不足,匮不足之所生,生于侈。”(《管子.八观篇》)。在管子看来,一个国家如果奢侈之风盛行,必然导致财富消耗增加,人民贫困,然后不良的风气和通过不正当手段获取利益的现象就会随之而生。在《管子·权修篇》中,论述了产品积储与消费之间的内在联系;“凡牧民者,以其所积者食之,不可不审也。其积多者其食多,其积寡者其食寡,无积者不食。或有积而不食者则民离 Pipe economic thinking, has a wealth of content. For example, his understanding of consumption and his discourse on the interrelationship between production, accumulation and consumption do not inspire us until two thousand years later. Give it one or two here. Pipe promote thrift and savings, against extravagance. He said: ”The country is the use of fees, the fee is the poor, poor people are adulterated, adultery wise is made .So evil spirits were born, born in Kui deficiency, Kui deficiency born, born in extravagance . “(” Tube eight articles “). In the view of pipe, the prevalence of luxury in a country inevitably leads to an increase in the consumption of wealth, the impoverishment of the people, the unhealthy tendencies and the gain of profits through improper means. In ”The Piece of the Right of the Empire,“ it expounds the intrinsic connection between product storage and consumption. ”Where the herders are rewarded with their food, The oligarchs their food widowed, no plotters do not eat