魏源是近代地主阶级改革派最杰出的思想家和资产阶级改良派的先驱。他为近代地主阶级改革派经济思想的发展作出了重要贡献,并且把它推向了一个新的高度。魏源既是典型中国经济思想的最后一位足值称述的思想家,同时也是号召向西洋文明包括经济制度学习的发 Wei Yuan is the forerunner of the most outstanding thinker and bourgeois reformist of the modern landlord class. He made an important contribution to the development of the economic ideology of the reformists in the modern landlord class and pushed it to a new height. Wei Yuan is both the last full-fledged thinker of a typical Chinese economic thought and the one calling for learning from Western civilization, including the economic system