Ethical And Moral Principles Of A Market Economy

Thanks to the economic globalization, the information revolution, and the international trade competence, the market economy has been developed into a new stage. It has been already realized, for both economists and ethicists, which the blindly believing in the strength of the market will absolutely result in the reguluaty-losing of the society, the order-losing of the market, and the credit-losing of the economy. Essentially the market economy is both legal-system economy and moral economy. Not only the strong safeguard of law but also the guide and soft adjustments of ethical morals are required for the health development of the market economy.From the aspect of the economy ethics, the ethical principle of the market economy was tried to probe into studying in this paper. It was considered that the ethical principles such as just, credit, mutual-benefit are the basic criteria to guarantee the just and order of economy. Governments(macro), enterprises(medium), and individuals(micro) are the practice subjects. What the ethical principle the practice subjects adhere to and how the practice subjects are morally restricted were the key points in this paper from the point of view of social practices.The meaning of the economy ethic and its role in market economy has been roducedin the paper. Also a brief introduction of the relevant researches domestic and abroad has been made. Three ethic principles such as just, credit, mutual-benefit have been emphasized in the third, the fourth, and the fifth chapters respectively. Combined with the three ethic principles, viewpoints were proposed as follows: Modern market economy is the organism of the macro- adjustments of governments and the abundant operation of market. With utilizing the management function according to the interests of the whole society, the government should propose thebasic principles and standards of economy ethics based on social just. Firstly, the government should raise the quality of its own morals, carry on the administration reform, and strengthen its political sense of duty; Secondly, the government should fully play the role of "night watchman" in market economy; And finally, the government should set up the unemployment compensation and social security system, and guarantee the just of economy.The principle of credit is the most basic moral criteria of enterprise, and market economy is the credit economy based on foundation of legal system. The implementation of the credit administrative system and the credit appraise system of enterprises plays an important role for strengthening social credit consciousness, setting up social credit system and taking precautions against financial risks. The credit information is the objective foundation of the credit service industry. With standardizing the acquisition and use procedures of the public information and the credit data, it will promote the credit service industry and lead to building a market order with fair competition and effectively running.The principle of mutual-benefit is the internal requirements and the regulator of the development of socialist market economy. And also it is one of the most realistic and most frequent basic moral categories to deal with the interests relations in market economy. So any subject in market economy must adhere to the principle of the equality and mutual-benefit, and attach importance to the unity of the economic benefits and the social benefits.