市场与良心——论市场经济的道德内涵

Market and Conscience——On Moral Connotations of Market Economy

经济学已然成为当代中国的第一显学,经济学家随之也成为叱咤风云的焦点人物,其立场观点对现实发展有着举足轻重的影响。但是,经济学家的话语霸权地位有时仅仅是时尚的社会地位的标志,并不意味着其观点在理性逻辑上无懈可击。把经济学局限在理财之技的范域内,是国内某些当红经济学家的通病,其症候就是凭借对西方经济学的皮毛之识。

The essence of morals is how to distribute self-benefit and non-self benefit. As one kind of means of resource distribution, market mechanism distributes morals as well. Morals are public benefit and should not do harm to other' s benefit. Market inefficiency may result at moral hazard, with no benefit to others, self benefit at the expense of other' s, and non-self benefit at the expense of other's. Therefore, Market inefficiency must be regarded as an objective to be improved. So the morals of market economy should be public benefit as well as other benefit without harming other' s benefit.