报酬递增:特殊性向普遍性转化的分析

Increasing Returns:Analysis on the Conversion from the Particularity to the Universality

对报酬递增规律的研究虽然呈现不断向深入发展的趋势,但始终没有被纳入主流经济学的体系之中,报酬递增只是作为一种特殊现象而被研究。本文在对传统报酬递增研究进行梳理的基础上指出:基本生产要素的两大类别──有形生产要素和无形生产要素在总生产要素中的相对比重的变化直接决定了报酬变化的方向,在有形生产要素占主导地位的条件下,报酬递增作为一种特殊性往往被淹没在具有普遍性的报酬递减规律之中;随着无形要素在总生产要素中的比重不断提高,总边际收益所表现出来的递增趋势日益明朗化,报酬递增规律也从一个或某几个领域向其他众多的领域延伸,普遍性日益凸显。

Although the law of increasing returns is studied more and more deeply,it can not be regarded as the part of the mainstream economical system,and it is considered as the particularity in the economical field.Based on the summary of the traditional research on increasing returns,the paper point out that the changing direction of returns is determined by the relative proportion of material factors and immaterial factors,which are made up of the whole basic factors.Under the condition that material factors tak...