Bevilacqua Emiliano
Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
Front Sociol. 2022 Nov 14;7:1054291. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1054291. eCollection 2022.
Sociology shows the role of emotions in economic life. Sympathy and self-interest are crucial individual dispositions to explain the social behavior that shapes market institutions. Adam Smith emphasized the importance that sympathy has in the achievement of stability in social interactions that foster market society. On the other hand, Max Weber argued that disciplined self-interest is essential for the accumulation of capital. Although their analyses differed in some aspects, both Smith and Weber considered emotions to be the key to understanding the moral values that drive economic behavior. This paper will compare Smith's and Weber's theories of the relationship between emotions and the market. Finally, this paper will interpret sympathy and self-interest as the emotional foundations of the market, highlighting the fundamental role that emotions might have in economic analyses.
社会学揭示了情感在经济生活中的作用。同情和自身利益是解释塑造市场制度的社会行为的关键个体倾向。亚当·斯密强调了同情在促进市场社会的社会互动实现稳定方面的重要性。另一方面，马克斯·韦伯认为自律的自身利益对资本积累至关重要。尽管他们的分析在某些方面存在差异，但斯密和韦伯都认为情感是理解驱动经济行为的道德价值观的关键。本文将比较斯密和韦伯关于情感与市场关系的理论。最后，本文将把同情和自身利益解释为市场的情感基础，突出情感在经济分析中可能具有的根本作用。
