制度变迁中的成本分析

Cost analysis in institutional change

新制度经济学提出的"成本-交易"模型已成为制度变迁研究的流行分析框架。基于对制度成本内涵及其论争的整理,本文将对经济范畴中的讨论扩展到政治和社会领域,对制度变迁的成本类型、分摊及其理论限度进行剖析,并指出改革成本是否及如何被分摊和化解,将决定着制度转型是否能成功。

The cost-transaction model advanced by new institutional economics has become a popular analytical framework for institutional change researches.Based on the examination of the connotations and argument of institutional cost,this article expands the discussion in the economic category to political and social areas,analyzes the cost type,allocation and theoretical limits of institutional change in depth,and points out that whether and how the reform cost is apportioned will determine the success or failure of institutional change.