行为、意义与经济学

经济学“理性”假设只是关于人类行为的三种主要的理性假设之一 ,这些假设的目的是要理性地解释被观察到的各种“行为” ,从而对行为赋予意义。对于人类行为的另外两种理性化方法是 :行为学意义上的理性假设和现象学意义上的理性假设。在过去二十年里 ,由于大量的脑科学实验数据的积累 ,关于身体的现象学研究 ,呈现出与基于认知科学的行为学研究的合流趋势 ,构成了一个新的理解人类理性的框架。这篇文章旨在说明这一新的理解框架 ,并试图进一步界定经济学理性假设的适用范围。

Human Behavior, Sense and Economics

Rationality is one of three competitive and complementary hypotheses that human reason makes to make sense out of human behavior. The other two are behavioristic and phenomenological. In the past two decades, due to rapid accumulation of data in brain sciences on one hand, and emergence of a phenomenology of the body on the other hand, there is recently a development to converge all the three different approaches aforementioned. This paper is the first effort to outline this possible synthesis in academic rationalization of human behavior.