养老是个既老又新的问题。说它老,是因为中华民族有孝老尊亲的文化传统。说它新,是因为今天养老问题犹如太行峭壁,突立而来。由老龄化所带来的人口压力、经济问题、社会矛盾使我们不得不跳出围城看全景,从“以人为本”的高度来思考养老所反映的社会问题及其解决方案。规范经济学提供了价值判断,实证经济学反映了事实本真,科学的经济学说必须包含价值观和方法论两个方面。创新理论的正确与否最终必然需实践检验,但其理论创新之路 Pension is an old and new problem. It is old because of the cultural tradition of filial piety and respect for the Chinese nation. To say it new is because the problem of providing for the aged is like a cliff in Taihang today. The population pressure, economic problems and social conflicts brought about by aging make us have to jump out of the siege to see the panorama and think about the social problems reflected in old-age care and its solutions from the perspective of “people-oriented ”. Normative economics provides the value judgments, empirical economics reflects the fact that the scientific theory of economics must include two aspects of values ​​and methodology. Whether the theory of innovation is correct or not will inevitably need to be tested by practice, but the path of its theoretical innovation