法律体系和部门法之间存在一个中观层次 ,并且随着社会的发展 ,社会利益观念的建立和政策性平衡的产生 ,中观结构要素中除了公法和私法之外又产生了社会法。公法、私法、社会法在调整对象、调整方式、法律本位、法律价值等方面存在着区别。经济法以社会利益为调整对象 ,以政策性平衡为调整方式 ,以社会本位为法律本位 ,以维护社会经济总体效益为法律价值。上述四个特征与社会法相一致 ,因此经济法在中观层次上归属于社会法 There is a meso-level hierarchy between the legal system and the departmental law. With the development of society and the establishment of the concept of social interests and the emergence of a policy balance, the social law has emerged in addition to public and private law. Public law, private law, social law in the adjustment of objects, ways of adjustment, the legal standard, the legal value and so there is a difference. Economic law takes the social interest as the adjustment target, the policy balance as the adjustment mode, the social standard as the legal standard, and the overall social and economic benefits as the legal value. The four characteristics are consistent with the social law, so the economic law at the meso level belongs to the social law