On The Virtue Of Economy

The research on the moral quality of economy--that is economic morality,especially on the relation of economy and morality,began in America in the 1960s and 1970s,and developed in the countries of Europe,but was focused on in china up to the eighties of 20^th century. There are so many encouraging achievements of this field in the last twenty years.But the involved research is in the inchoate stage,and some problems need to be explored and interpreted systematically with a higher platform and a deeper level.In the section one(chapter one) of the dissertation,I explain the original account for study on this subject,and argue that morality is born in economy.Understanding and dealing with the economy deeply,we need to analyze it from a moral view.The restriction of morality to economy is unique,especially in the sense of the scientific morality promoting the development of economy.The study on economic morality in the field of business ethics is inevitable,also on the economic construction and the development of corporation.In the section two(chapter two) of the dissertation,I discuss the senses and functions of the moral quality of economy deeply in a new systematical theoretical view,and argue that virtue is a continuable quality in which moral subject follows consciously the moral duty for a moral ideal in the control of a good-seeking moral altitude.So the virtue of economy is the moral duty,sublime orientation for values and continuable quality to economic behavior.The functions of the virtue of economy include purifying the social environment,strengthening the power of economy,elevating the degree to Material civilization, advancing the economic behavior and dealing with relationship between stakeholders.In the section three(chapter three to five) of the dissertation,I focus study on the moral meanings of economy and economic senses of morality by combing the history of involved ideas in the dialectic perspective.Based on integrating theory and practice,some innovative ideas are referred to and used to explain the co-existence and interaction between economy and morality.These ideas include:'Smith Problem' is a dummy proposition,'real economy' is the moral economy,and morality is one of the force of production.Economic activities are people's activities and the activities involving social relationship.So the economic activities contain necessarily morality that embodies the will of economic subject and the economic relationship.As the basic precondition to economic activities,economic institutions will lack the rational justification if the morality absents from it.At the same time,the virtue of morality is the unique function to economic construction and the development of corporation.That is the spiritual support to economic activities,the core of immaterial corporation asset,the important guarantee to collocating with reason resources,the important rules of economic operation,and the important symbol of development of socialistic market economy.So there will not be the right understandings and ways to economy without morality.Ignoring the unique power of morality,economy cannot develop better and faster.In the section four(chapter six to eight) of the dissertation,on the base of researching on the moral spirit of economy in contemporary china, at the level of application I discuss the ethical or moral problems in the full process of corporation management,involving the birth and functions of moral capital,corporation core-competitiveness,corporation morality practice and values realization,and so on.Through some novel views include:morality is the capital,morality is the core factor of corporation core-competitiveness,the aim of competition is survival of the fittest, 'Prisoner dilemma' is the game of gambling,I discuss how the virtue of morality become the important support and content of corporation core-competitiveness,reveal deeply the functional mechanism of it during the economic construction and the development of corporation, and explain that morality can form the resultant force like one plus one over two which may maximize the interest and profit by training and inspiring the spiritual potential and harmonizing different interest relationships in the process of economic production and management. Finally,through the study and interpretation on involved problems in the way of theory relation to practice,I try to refine and design an exercisable morality approach to enhancing effectively the corporation core-competitiveness.