市场经济的效率原则及其道德论证——从现代经济伦理的角度看

The Principle of Efficiency and Its Moral Justfication

本文从现代经济伦理的角度提出效率的道德问题,通过对西方三种主要的效率论证理论的比较分析,力图建立一种较为完整合理的关于效率原则的道德论证。该道德论证的核心理念是,不能把市场经济的效率仅仅看作是一种天然价值(善),其价值可欲性和道德合理性必须在人类行为的合目的性与相互性语境中求得证明。因此,效率原则作为经济伦理的基本原则之一,不能被看作是价值生产性的纯经济学概念,其正当合理性论证不仅需要最终诉诸于人类生活的目的论解释,而且也需要得到分配正义的道义论支持。

This paper is another scholarly effort in sorting out the relationship between efficiency and morality. Based on a comparative study of the three major theories of efficiency in the west, the paper is meant to establish a more comprehensive and reasonable moral justification of efficiency. According to the author, market efficiency should not be taken for granted. Rather it should be justified in the context of historic teleology and human values.