中国共产党第十三次代表大会提出了加快和深化改革的历史任务。改革包括政治体制改革和经济体制改革,经济体制改革的核心问题是计划管理体制改革。当前我们正在治理经济环境,深化改革,司春林同志为我们提供了一本以经济政策理论和计划管理体制(特别是他们的方法论)为主题的新书(中国展望出版社,1988年11月),我认为是适时的。把经济政策和计划管理体制问题作为经济控制论的研究对象,我认为也是恰当的。“控制论”一词来源于希腊语,有“舵手”、“管理国家的艺术”之意。但作为一门科学,控制论是在本世纪40年代末由美国著名科学家诺伯特·维纳等人创立的。维纳最初把控制论定义为“动物和机器中控制和通讯的科学”。维纳对于这门科学能否应用于社会经济系统 The 13th Chinese Communist Party Congress put forward the historic task of speeding up and deepening the reform. The reform includes the reform of the political system and the reform of the economic system. The core issue of the economic system reform is the reform of the program management system. At present, we are managing the economic environment and deepening the reform. Comrade Shichun Lin provided us with a new book (China Prospect Press, November 1988) on the theme of economic policy theory and program management system (especially their methodology) , I think it is timely. I think it is appropriate to regard the issue of economic policy and program management system as the object of economic control theory. The term “cybernetics” derives from Greek, with “helmsman” and “managing the art of the country.” However, as a science, cybernetics was founded in the late 1940s by the famous American scientist Norbert Wiener and others. Wiener originally defined cybernetics as “the science of control and communication in animals and machines.” Wiener's application of this science to the socio-economic system