经济人假设在公共领域的适用性论析

围绕经济人假设所产生的诸多争论,很大程度上源于对这一理论假设的错误理解。本文认为,经济人假设作为自由市场经济制度和自由民主政治制度建构的前提和基础,是关于人的动机模式的假设,它反映了人的社会选择和社会行动最原初的动力来自于人对自我利益的理性计算和理性追求。经济人假设既可以适用于人的经济行为取向的分析,同时与近代西方自由主义政治哲学关于人的动机模式的看法具有内在的一致性,因此也可以扩展到经济领域之外,适用于对人的政治行为取向的分析。

The Adaptability of Demonstration and Analysis for the Hypothesis of Economic Men in Public Domain

There exist many arguments,which,to a certain extent,stem from the misunderstanding on the hypothesis of economic men.The viewpoint will be put forward in this paper is that,as the forming precondition and foundation of the free market economic system and the free democratic political system,the hypothesis of economic men is about the hypothesis of motive mode of men,which reflects that the original motive of men's social choice and social action comes from men's rational calculation and rational pursuit for self-interests.Thus the hypothesis of economic men is not only applicable for analyzing the orientation of men's economic behaviors,but it has the inherent consistency with the perspectives of the neoteric western liberalistic political philosophy on the men's motive mode as well,which accordingly can be extended to other areas beyond economy and is eventually applicable for analyzing the orientation of men's political behaviors.