以礼制利:外部性的克服及其局限——对我国古代经济思想义利观的现代思考

Confine Utility by Etiquette: a way to Overcome Externality and its Deficiency

我国古代经济思想里一直存在的经济假设这一命题 ,趋利避害的人性假定是各学派阐释其理论的出发点。各学派的分歧点是在对经济人行为外部不经济的解释上。以西方经济学的理论对外部性概念进行学理抽象 ,便可诠释我国古代经济思想义利观形成的合理性 。

In this article, I considered that the hypothesis of 'Economic Man' exists in the thoughts of China ancient economic all the time and this hypothesis is the theoretical start of various schools. On how to explain the externality of economic man's behavior, there exist divarications. I set forth the conception of externality under the frame of modern economics theories and explained the rationality of all kinds of views on how to balance utility and etiquette in ancient economic thoughts, also discussed some deficiencies on confine the behavior of chasing utility by etyquette