Serbest Piyasa, Birey ve Sosyal İlişkiler

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 21 Sayı: 1, 1 - 15, 20.03.2019

Mehmet Kocaoğlu

https://doi.org/10.32709/akusosbil.409318

Öz

Serbest piyasa sistemi en baskın ekonomik sistem
haline gelmiştir. Her ne kadar serbest piyasa sistemi insanların hayatın her alanında
önemli kazanımlar elde etmelerine imkan vermişse de,  günümüzde pek çok soruna sebep olmaktadır. Yabancılaşma,
güvensizlik ve stressten kaynaklanan hastalıkların yaygınlık kazanması, aile-iş
çatışması, cinsiyet eşitsizliğinin derinleşmesi, gelirin belli bir azınlığın
elinde toplanması, piyasa değerlerinin hayatın tüm katmanlarına sızması ve
piyasa dışı değerleri yerinden etmesi, baskıya dayalı yeni güç ilişkileri bu
sorunlardan bazılarıdır. Bu makalenin temel amacı bireysel çıkar, güç,
hiyerarşi, yıkıcı rekabet ve aç gözlülük gibi değerlere dayanan piyasanın
alternatifi olarak alturistik davranış, şefkat ve empati gibi değerlere dayalı
farklı bir piyasa anlayışının benimsenmesinin piyasa kaynaklı sorunları
azaltacağını ortaya koymaktır. İlk olarak, serbest piyasanın iktisadi özne imgesi
eleştirel olarak ele alınmaktadır ve alturistik iktisadi bir öznenin bireysel
çıkarı benimseyen iktisadi öznenin yerini alması gerektiği savunulmaktadır. İkinci
olarak serbest piyasa anlayışının sebep olduğu bazı sorunları azaltmakta sosyal
ilişkilerin önemli bir fonksiyonu olduğu ileri sürülmektedir. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Piyasa, Etik, Birey, Refah, Sosyal İlişkiler

Free Market, Individual and Relational Goods

Öz

The
Free Market System has become the most dominant economic system. Although the
free market system has provided people with the most significant personal
gains, this system still leads to many problems. Alienation, widespread
diseases steming from distrust and stress, family-work conflict, extensive
gender inequality, income accumulation in the hands of a few people, free
market values infiltrating other spheres of life and overcrowding nonmarket
values, relations based on force and power politics are some of the problems
that the free market order brings out. The purpose of this study is to put
forward an alternative understanding of the free market based on values such as
altruistic behavior, compassion and empathy in order to solve problems caused
by the free market system based on self interest, power, hierarchy, distructive
competition and greed. First, in this study the idea of the economic agent of
the free market is critically examined. This study suggests that an altrustic
economic agent should replace a self interest oriented economic agent. Second,
it is argued that relational goods have a substantial role in decreasing some
of the problems yielded by the free market sytem.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Free Market, ethics, individual, well-being, relational goods

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