“交易成本”概念:层次、分类

交易成本概念存在歧义。为消除歧义,对交易成本概念进行了分层和分类。指出存在范围宽窄不一的几类交易成本,从科斯等人意义上的最狭义的市场交易、企业管理的成本,扩张到阿罗意义上的使用制度的成本,再扩张到张五常意义上的最广义的交往成本,它们之间存在类似于俄罗斯套娃的关系。由此提出交易成本的一组概念来代替单一概念。意义在于厘清交易成本这一(其实是一组)经济学基本概念。

The Concept of "Transaction Cost" : Stratification and Categorization

Transaction cost is a basic concept of economics,but this concept is rather ambiguous.In order to eliminate this ambiguity,we stratify and categorize the concept into several sorts of definition which have different confines and width from each other.The relationship between these concepts is similar to Matryoshka(Russian doll).From the generalized transaction cost(Wuchang Zhang) to the cost of the institution(Arrow),there are also transaction costs on the market and the cost of enterprise management(Coase,et al.).Based on the above analysis,we put forward a group of concepts instead of a single concept,with great significance to clarify this basic concept(a group of concepts,actually) in economics.