文化机制与经济发展关系的经济学思考

中国目前的发展阶段已经到了一个转折的关头,小康水平之后开始反思传统发展观所带来的发展后的问题.当财富的增长不能持续地给人们带来效用的满足、市场机制与政府机制在解决发展所带来的种种问题时出现了失灵,文化机制的作用与重要性开始凸现.在很多领域,文化机制作为一种制度安排的形式能够在一定程度上补充政府制度和市场制度的不足,其通过一定的社会环境因素影响政府、企业和个人的经济行为从而影响经济的发展.反过来,一定的经济发展目标或经济发展条件,必然产生与之相应的经济行为,这种经济行为往往能够透过社会环境影响文化机制的建设与改善.

The Relationship between Cultural Mechanism and Economic Development: An Economic Perspective

China has reached a turning point in its developmental stage; after attaining a moderately high standard of living, people have come to rethink post-development issues brought by traditional outlook on development. When growth in wealth cannot continuously bring about utility satisfaction, and when market mechanism and government mechanism fail to solve various problems resulting from development, the role and importance of cultural mechanism begin to emerge. As a form of institutional arrangement, it can, to some extent, make up for government institutions and market institutions in many fields, influencing the economic behavior of government, firms and individuals through given social environment factors and thus influencing economic development. In turn, given objectives or conditions of economic development are bound to give rise to corresponding economic behavior, which produces an effect on the building and improvement of cultural mechanism through social environment.