公用事业的特许经营与价格监管——以近代上海民营水电业为例的考察

Public Utilities' Franchises and Price Regulation:Taking Private Water and Electric Industry in Modern Shanghai as an Example

近代上海发展民营公用事业是南京政府在财政困难、国家资本供给不足条件下的选择。在坚持国家经营主导地位的前提下,政府利用政治权力对特许经营的公用企业实行高度的干预,民营公用事业虽有一定的发展,但很不充分,也没有起到改善民生、维护社会公共利益的作用。然而,特许经营合同的保证金机制和公用事业价格的成本监管,就一般的制度构建而言,仍有参考的价值。

The development of private public utilities in modern Shanghai was the Nanjing government s choice under financial difficulties and the lack of state capital supply.On the premises of the dominance of national business,the Nanjing government had intervened in franchising of public enterprises with a high degree by political power.So the private utilities could not fully develop and did not improve social livelihood and public interests. On the other hand,as for general institutional construction,the deposit...