经济学研究的伦理因素浅析——以生态经济学为例

Analysis of the Ethical Factor in Economics——An example of Ecological Economics

经济学与伦理学有着深厚的学科渊源,在历史上很长的时期里经济学研究是以伦理思想为背景的。但是现代经济学试图摆脱伦理因素的约束,逐渐独立于伦理学。经济学的发展困境使其重归伦理之路,各新兴学科开始从不同的角度探讨经济学的伦理之维。其中,生态经济学以生态伦理为基础,关注经济现实、社会发展以及自然和人性,包含了充分的伦理思考。最后,本文试着构建和实现生态经济学的伦理体系。

Economics and ethics have a strong academic origin, for during a long historical period economics was based on the background of ethics. But modern economics tried to get rid of the constraints of ethical factors, and separated from ethics gradually. Development dilemma forced economics to return to the ethical road, and each emerging disciplines started to probe the ethical dimension of economics from various perspectives. Especially, ecological economics, which is based on the ecological ethics, pays attention to economic realities, social development, nature and humanness, and contains a full ethical reflection. At the last part of the article, the author attempts to build an achievable ethical system of ecological economics.