寻找理性经济行为的逻辑新起点——试论中国传统伦理下的中庸理性经济人

Seeking for Logic Starting Point of Rational Economic Behavior:Research on Zhongyong Rational Economic Man in Chinese Traditional Ethics

在主流经济学的视野中,追求效用最大化是社会个体理性行为的基本准则。文章认为主流经济学理性假设的根本问题在于没有揭示特定人类社会的独特复杂特征。主流经济学家忽略了在现实生活中存在于西方文明之外的"实然"——中庸理性。文章尝试在以中庸理性为假设的理性经济人模型基础上,探讨中国传统伦理下中庸理性经济人的演化及其存在的可能空间。

In mainstream economics＇ view, the pursuit of utility maximization is a basic criterion of social individual rational behavior. This paper considers that the fundamental drawback of the rational assumptions of mainstream economics is the lack of a revelation of unique complex features of specific human society. Mainstream economists always lose sight of practice which exists beyond western civilization in real life, that is to say Zhongyong rationality. This paper tries to introduce Zhongyong rationality into a rational economic man model, and discuss the evolution of Zhongyong rational economic man and its existing space in Chinese traditional ethics.