制度创新:经济增长的源泉

Innovatlon of system——the source of economic growth

作者认为,目前流行的经济增长理论一般都是在一个制度不变的环境下,考察一国经济是如何通过物质生产要素的投入变化和生产率的变化实现增长的。然而制度的变化既改变收入分配,又改变经济中使用资源效率的潜在可能性,因而对经济增长起决定作用的是制度因素而非技术性因素。本文进而从产权、国家、意识形态等环节探讨了制度创新推动经济增长的机理,并在实证分析困扰我国经济增长的种种难题的基础上,得出了制约我国经济增长更主要“瓶颈”不是资本短缺,而是制度供给短缺的结论。因此,制度创新是推动我国经济持续稳定增长的根本途径。

The author thinks that the current popular economic growth theory analyses a country's econ omy is how to realize economic growth by changing material production factors' input and produc tivity generally under the condition of a fixing system. However, the change of system will change income distribution as well as potentiality of the efficiency of using resources. Therefore, it is the system factor and not the technical one that play dominant role in economic growth. Thus, this paper probes into the mechanism of system innovation propelling economic growth from the aspects of property rights, government and ideology. Based on the positive analysis for the various kinds of difficulties of perplexing our country's economic growth, the author con cludes that, as a 'bottleneck', it is the shortage of systematic supply more than capital's shortage that restrains our country's economic growth. For this reason, system innovation is the crucial way for propelling our country's economic growing continuely and steadily.