“伦理学”与“社会市场经济”是两个看起来彼此并没有多少联系的概念。然而根据许多人的判断,几乎没有一个社会生活的领域受伦理学观点的影响会小于经济学的影响,尽管科学的“伦理学”学科(作为关于人的行为规范的学说)和“经济学”(作为关于稀缺资源的最佳利用的学说)并不存在活跃的思想交流,或者它们看上去是几乎毫无联系地并存着。 “Ethics” and “social market economy” are two concepts that do not seem to have much to do with each other. However, according to many people's judgment, there is scarcely one area of ​​social life influenced by ethical perspectives less than that of economics, though the scientific “ethics” disciplines (as doctrines of human behavior norms) and “economics” (As a doctrine on the best use of scarce resources) there is no active exchange of ideas, or they seem to coexist with almost no connection.