论高等教育活动中的"经济人"

根据“经济人”理论的观点,由于人们追求利益促进了整个社会的丰裕,同样,高等教育主体追求利益最大化的行为也可以推动高等教育发展。本文就是从“经济人”的理论观点出发,提出作为“经济人”身份的高等教育主体:政府、高等学校、学生个人及家庭,在市场规则下参与高等教育活动,其结果促进了高等教育自身的发展,但应该看到,利益驱使下高等教育主体也会滋生市场“寻租”行为,所以在保证高等教育主体利益最大化的同时,还要对此加以制度性的约束。

Higher Education Sector as An Economic Man

Based on the theory of "Economic Man", it is said that the pursuit of interest may rich the material prosperity of society, while the subject of higher education, which its purpose is to pursue maximum of interest of its own, may also promote the development of the higher education sectors. This article will examine how the subjects of higher education as Economic Man operate under the context of economy market, that is, how the three subjects of higher education such as Government, institutions, students or families make gemes to pursue the maximum of interest of their own when their participating in the affairs of higher education. However, it should be noted, some behaviors of "rent-seeking" of higher education as Economic Man are easily made in the process of pursuing interests, which should be controlled and overcome by the self-regulation of institutions of higher education.