“快乐经济学”的质疑与释疑

Query and Dispel Suspicion Regarding the Economics of Happiness

快乐不仅是人类行为的终极目的,而且原本就是经济学的核心命题。20世纪初以来,经济学开始把经济增长置于核心视域。事实上,经济增长是工具价值,快乐才是终极价值。资源配置、社会分配、增长方式等所有经济问题的核心,最终都要看是否有利于增加最大多数人的快乐幸福生活。如果经济有增长而快乐没提高,这种增长不是无意义也起码是缺乏意义的。假如不明白经济的核心问题归根结底是人们的幸福问题,就会迷失经济发展、经济转型、资源配置的根本方向,并在遇到经济增长、收入分配与环境损害等矛盾时,缺乏根本性科学的取舍原则。近年来,体验经济学提出的基于快乐的体验效用对基于稀缺的决策效用的终极目的意义,不仅指明了经济发展的终极价值方向,同时也有助于经济学更好地造福人类,纠正唯国内生产总值(GDP)马首是瞻的偏向,实现以人为本、科学发展的功能。经济学如果脱离"快乐"的核心命题,可能最终会导致它不知所终。

This paper answers some questions related to the background and the arising problems of the economics of happiness. These exploratory answers, throug which you can deepen the understand- ing of the relationship between happiness and economics, and which contribute to happiness was further studied in economics. Happiness is not only the the ultimate destination of human behaviors, but also the core topic of the economics of happiness originally, which is the basic point of this paper. That exprienced effectiveness based on happiness do not only point out the direction of national happiness of economical development, but also contribute to make the economics bring benefit to service the human society for the ultimate goal significance of the strategic effectiveness based on sparsity.