企业家经济人的伦理确认

The Ethical Confirmation of Entrepreneur as an Economic Man

企业家经济人的伦理确认是企业伦理的重要前提之一。阿马蒂亚·森对"经济人"的"自利行为假设"进行了深刻的批判,认为自利行为假设是没有根据的。长期以来,主流经济学家关于"经济人"自利最大化的认识是一种误解。作为从道德哲学(伦理学)中诞生,并自立门户的经济学,必须回到伦理学去。经济学研究的学科独立性并没有在内涵上去伦理化,经济学仍然具有道德属性。作为经济人的企业家是一个现实的社会个体,由错误的自利行为假设前提出发,从而推定在这一个体身上必然发生道德人与经济人的人格分裂事实的结论,自然是错误的。其实,企业家经济人基于现实利益目标,必然是经济人与道德人的复合,无论从经济学理论缘起、发展,以及生产实践中,企业家经济人都能够得到企业家道德人的伦理确认。

Entrepreneur as an economic man is one of the most important premises of enterprise ethic. Amartya Sen scathingly critiqued the＂assumption of self-serving behavior＇of ＂economic man,＂ arguing that this assumption is groundless. The idea that has long been entertained by mainstream economists that economic man tries everything to maximize his own interest is a misconception. Economics, which originally grew out of moral philosophy and then became a separate discipline, must now return to ethics. Though an independent research field, economics can not rid itself of moral consideration--its subject matter is not completely amoral. An entrepreneur is an economic man, but he is in reality a social being. The assumption of self-interest implies the split of the moral person from the economic person of the same individual, which falsifies the assumption itself. In fact, entrepreneur as an economic man who aims at real interest must at the same time be a moral man. With regards the genesis and development of economics and the practice of production, an entrepreneur should not only be taken as an economic man. but his moral nersnnnlitv t ~1~, h ~;~d