Abstract：Industrial culture has attracted extensive attention due to the policies carried out by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in recent years， but the related academic and theoretical research is insufficient. This new concept urgently demands a theoretical foundation. After the Second World War， the discussion on the crisis of economics detaching itself from reality in the academic circles of the developed countries has aroused theoretical concern about industrial culture issues. By tracing the history of economics， we can find the source of ideas， concepts and propositions of industrial culture studies from the German historical school in the 19th century， and the interdisciplinary methodological propositions of the German historical school also match the interdisciplinary attributes of industrial culture. Modern evolutionary economics inherits and develops the ideas and methods of the German historical school. The characteristics of innovation sector preference revealed by modern evolutionary economics demonstrate the rationality of industrial culture. The theory of National Systems of Innovation constructed by modern evolutionary economics provides a theoretical basis for industrial culture policy. Therefore， evolutionary economics can serve as the theoretical basis of industrial culture and promote the academic and theoretical study of industrial culture.
严 鹏. 工业文化的学理基础：对经济学史的分析[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2022, 61(6): 49-60.
Yan Peng. The Theoretical Basis of Industrial Culture：An Analysis of the History of Economics. journal1, 2022, 61(6): 49-60.
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