Dual Effect On The Moral Development Of The Market Economy

To analyze the relationship between the market economy and morality, we needto study the market economy produces and its operating mechanism. Market economyproduces is a huge change in the history of human development, which promotes thedevelopment and rapid increase in the productivity of social wealth, human societyhas brought unprecedented change. From an economic point of life, due to theprosperity of the market, people are able to enjoy the wealth of goods, at the sametime, one can take full advantage of market exchange to get their own wealth, andthus greatly improve the people’s living standards. From the ideological point of view,because of the social being determines social consciousness, so the market economy,the emergence and development of mankind have had a profound ideological andmoral influence. Influenced by market mechanisms, people began to pay moreattention to freedom, equality concept, but at the same time, the market economyinherent shortcomings and drawbacks, but also gives rise to the money first, greed,rampant swindling and other moral defects. Therefore, on the relationship between themarket economy and morality, generally arises two views, some people think that themarket economy and the people’s moral development can achieve unity, we can turnto push people’s ideological and moral progress through the market economy, otherpeople think that the market economy should take full responsibility for the moraldecline, and the development of a market economy will inevitably make moral lost,mankind will become more selfish and ruthless.Specific to our country, because the country after the founding of theimplementation of the planned economic system, so our market economy and moralrelations thinking, primarily began after the reform and opening up, since theimplementation of a market economy. During this period, due to changes in theeconomic system, China’s production began undergone tremendous changes, contactsand relations between people’s lifestyles, living standards between people also willproduce a lot of changes, coupled with the West the impact of various theories, ideas, concepts, ways of thinking and ethics of our people has also been a significant change.And so must rely on the planned economy era, such as thinking big pot wascompletely negative, people began to yearn for a market economy brought aboutefficiency, freedom, fairness, competition and other concepts. But the problems havecropped up, along with China’s economic construction has achieved the world’s greatachievements, people in the material to solve the problem of food and clothing, toachieve a comfortable standard; however on the other hand, the quality of part of ournational without a corresponding substantial The increase, but in the spirit of theperformance of more and more empty, and even the emergence of a growing numberof anti-moral events. The occurrence of these events, and constantly torturedconscience of our people, so we have to re-examine the relationship between themarket economy and moral and ethical issues in the construction of the socialistmarket economy. A preliminary study discussed in this paper is also based on thecurrent market scholars are more concerned about the relationship between economicand ethical issues and make.This paper analyzes the operating mechanism of the market economy is a marketeconomy and begin to start. Because of the price, supply and demand and competitioncombined effect of these mechanisms, the market economy has become the mosteffective means to promote the rational allocation of resources, the development ofmarket economy greatly improve human productivity, and promote social progress; atthe same time also contributed to the generation of people thinking of freedom,equality, competition and other ideas, these ideas in order to encourage people tomaximize their own interests and strive to promote social progress further growth andsocial wealth. People’s production features under the market economy has beensummarized as "economic man hypothesis.""Economic man hypothesis" has arational place, we need to learn to be at the time of development of the socialistmarket economy, in order to stimulate people’s enthusiasm for production; at the sametime,"economic man hypothesis" also includes unreasonable, if not specification,there will be immoral greed, selfish. And the "economic person" is the opposite of"moral man" hypothesis,"moral man" man as a social, people will try to promote the increase of social wealth, and thus increase the wealth of society will bring their ownbenefits. We build a socialist market economy,"economic person "and "moral person"and will also appear in the society, we should actively play its advancement side, andarouse people’s enthusiasm for production; while also appropriate regulatory system,to regulate their behavior. After analyzing the "economic person "and "moral person"and the use of analysis of the positive and negative effects of the market economy togenerate the moral viewpoint of historical materialism of Marxism. Finally, apply theMarxist point of view, we analyze the means to strengthen the moral constructionunder the socialist market economy: to give full play to the advantages of socialism,socialist system to regulate the market economy with socialist core values guidecomplemented by institutional constraints; moral construction of our citizens andcarry forward the Chinese national spirit and traditional virtues combined. Ultimately,we will be able to achieve the goal of socialist moral construction, so all citizens toestablish the correct values of collectivism and become qualified builders andsuccessors of the socialist cause.