经常听到这样一种说法,市场经济中的人,是追求自身物质利益最大化的“经济人”,因此,发展市场经济必然会使人们的私利性和物欲得以助长,这就与提倡社会主义精神文明、思想道德建设发生对立。果真如此吗?搞清楚这一问题,显然需要有对市场经济理论中“经济人”假设的正确认识。为达此目的,本文谈些粗浅的认识,试图消除对“经济人”认识上的种种误解,从而阐明发展社会主义市场经济与加强思想道德建设两者之间的内在统一关系。 一、“经济人”与现实生活中的人两者不能简单划等号 “经济人”假设,其实是一种理论抽象。这种所谓的理论抽象是指在对某一对象进行 It is often heard that people in a market economy are “economic men” seeking the maximum of their own material interests. Therefore, the development of a market economy will inevitably encourage people’s self-interest and material desire. This is in line with advocating socialism Spiritual civilization, ideological and moral contradictions. If so, to find out clearly this issue, we need to have a correct understanding of the hypothesis of “economic man” in the theory of market economy. In order to achieve this goal, this article talks about some superficial understandings and attempts to dispel various misunderstandings about the “economic man” so as to elucidate the inherent unity between the development of the socialist market economy and the strengthening of ideological and moral construction. First, the “economic man” and real people can not simply be equated two “economic man” assumption, in fact, a theoretical abstraction. This so-called theoretical abstraction refers to the conduct of an object