通过对贵金属货币史的考察,我们发现了货币数量论解释不了的现象,即货币量的增加并不一定导致通货膨胀。与货币中性论不同,我们还发现货币量的增加对经济发展至关重要,资本主义大发展源于人们对货币非理性的无限占有欲。这些发现颠覆了西方主流经济学的若干分析方法及相关结论。 By examining the history of the precious metal money, we have found a phenomenon that can not be explained by the quantity theory of money. That is, an increase in the amount of money does not necessarily lead to inflation. Different from the monetary neutral theory, we also find that the increase of the amount of money is very important to the economic development. The great development of capitalism stems from the people’s unlimited possession of the irrationality of money. These findings have overturned several analytical methods and related conclusions of the mainstream western economics.