从公共产品供给制度的变迁看财政的性质——运用交易成本概念进行的分析

Looking into the Nature of Finance from the Evolution of Public Goods Supply System:Analysis of Applying the Concept of Transaction Cost

分析了公共产品供给制度变迁的历史,指出林达尔均衡是一种虚拟的均衡,财政实际是降低公共产品交易成本的一种制度安排。虽然人们一直认为财政主要追求公平目标,但实际上作为一种制度安排,效率仍然是其存在的依据。

This paper analyzes the history of the evolution of public goods supply system, points out that Lindahl Equilibrium is a kind of supposifional equilibrium and public finance is in fact a system arrangement of decreasing transaction cost. Although people still think that public finance mainly pursuits the object of fairness, in fact being a system arrangement, the efficiency is the basis of its existence.