如何理解“制度重要”命题——从哈耶克“知识问题”视角看科斯的比较制度分析

虽然自科斯定理出现以来,人们普遍接受了在一个交易成本为正的世界中制度重要命题,但由于各种原因该命题存在着极大的被新古典化的风险,制度分析被窄化为制度的均衡分析。从这种分析出发,作为外在第三方的经济学家被认为可以基于对有关交易成本信息的完全掌握而对制度效率进行事前比较。本文从哈耶克的知识问题出发对这种分析路径进行批判,认为这实际上相当于以另外一种方式将人们重新拉回到零交易成本世界。

How to Understand the Proposition of Significance of Institution

While the proposition in the world with positive transaction costs institution matters is generally accepted since the Coase Theorem was put forward,it has been under the risk of being neoclassicalized due to some reasons,where institutional analysis is narrowed to be some sort of equilibrium analysis,based on the ex ante comparison of the efficiency of alternative institutions with economists as the third part from outside who have perfect knowledge of the transaction costs concerned.This line of instituti...