经济伦理的性质

经济伦理是经济生活领域中固有的伦理道德现象,它形式上是社会伦理要求与经济运行过程相互作用的产物,本质上则是由经济必然性所派生的伦理应然性,具体表现为经济活动主体的伦理理念、伦理行为方式以及经济活动主体间的伦理关系。经济伦理的公正守信原则就在于能够从经济交往的最一般规则出发来维护经济主体的人性,进而可以在最低限度上避免破坏经济效率的人性异化现象的孳生蔓延。经济伦理唯有在获得外在权力(首先是政治权力)的明确支持时,方能够对经济生活发挥广泛的影响,并成为推动经济持续高速增长、维持经济生活秩序的强大精神力量。

Nature of Economic Ethics

Economic ethics is concerned with the moral behavior in the field of economic life. Formally it is a product of the economic operation process; but in essence it is derived from the economic inevitability, demonstrating the ethic relationship between the moral concept and behavior of the economic entity and the ethic relationship between the economic entities. The economic principle of fairness and credit which is based on the most general law of economic exchange safeguards the humanity of economic entity and checks the spread of heterization of humanity that impairs the efficiency of economy. Only definitely supported by the external powers, especially the power of politics, can economic ethics exert its extensive influence upon economic life and become a driving force for the rapid and sustained growth of economy and a spiritual force for the maintenance of the order of economic life.