Title: Return of Economic Person Hypothesis and the Construction of Harmonious Society
Abstract: Under the control of certain moral ethics and law,the economic person pursues his benefit and carries out others at the same time,which was Adam Smith's perception.The successors of Smith made the hypothesis of economic person more and more utilitarian,reasonable and formal,so the hypothesis loses its original ethics idea.India economist,Amartya Sen initiates a new kind of development view which takes freedom as its highest value,so he achieves the return for an economic person back to classical economics.Based on this,we should set up to foster the economic persons with four kinds of moral quality when we construct the harmonious society.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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