Main rationality condition of economic behavior

Following defining of economy or economic relations might be true: the economy is the relations regarding composing and using of resources for realizing of needs and wishes.

Approaching by this point of view, rationality of issues about composing and using of resources or rationality of economy directly depends on the rationality of needs and wishes. Of course, if we approach to economy more broadly. Let’s, concretely define the idea. For example, the person has got wish to enrich by stealing huge amount money from the other one’s bank account. He understands that, for this he needs to have advanced knowledge and skills about information technologies. He decides to study from the most reliable sources and starts working to earn money by legal ways.

Through the years, he resolutely gains knowledge and skills. Finally, the time comes for realizing of his “big” plan. He realizes the crime. After some time, he overtaken and finishes his life in the prison with the wish to do same crime and to achieve the luxurious life.

In this concrete example evaluating the person’s behavior and economic relations as its component from rationality and non-rationality sides, we see that, even such high humanistic values as education, skills and knowledge and working for necessary resources in this case are non-rational and hollow.

So, what is the reason of this irrationality? The answer is very simple^ the final target, the final intention. But, the intermediate targets and intermediate intentions are not enough to evaluate the behaviors.

Here the most important point is the nature of acts and operations, also the nature of needs and wishes that are located more basically. From this point of view, the rationality of economic behaviors directly depends on perfectness of human’s needs and wishes. By other words we may say that, the rationality degree of economic behaviors is a depended variable that directly depends on the perfectness degree of the spirit, intention and target. Just, this dependence argues the necessity about studying the economy in the contrast of “halal”s (honest) and “haram”s (dishonest), “possible”s and “impossible”s, “good”s and “bad”s.

Aghanemat Aghayev