中国产品质量缺陷形成的政治经济学分析

A Political Economy Approach to the Prevalence of Product Quality Flaw in China

两个经济原因导致中国市场产品质量缺陷充斥:一是收入分配不公平和经济发展水平,它们从需求方面通过市场机制引导厂商向市场供给问题产品;二是信息不对称而政府监管缺位,导致本可避免的产品质量缺陷存在。经济发展水平导致的质量缺陷短期内基本上是难以解决的,收入分配不公平则需要通过政治途径解决,信息不对称引起的市场在产品质量上的失败应该是由政府来解决的,但是它们都因为政治性因素的影响而未能解决。

There are two main economic causes put forward to be responsible for the flooding quality flaw： firstly, low level of economic development accompanied by unequal income distribution leads to higher demand for low quality product with low cost, which induces producers to supply various products with quality drawbacks; secondly, the government accepts the existence of quality drawbacks, which could be solved if it mean to regulate, by deficiency of surveillance over product quality under asymmetric information. The quality flaw cannot be avoided if it results from the low level of economic development. If it is the income gap that creates quality flaw, it could be eliminated by income redistribution. The government is obligated to solve quality flaw resulting from information asymmetry. Unfortunately, the government fails to accomplish the task because of the current political process.