评巴泽尔的产权国家理论

THE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND STATE THEORY OF YORAM BARZEL

巴泽尔用产权分析方法创造性地构建出了新制度经济学的国家模型。该理论认为:国家起源于第三方介入,其职能在于确保社会各方合作和交换的成功;国家规模取决于领土规模与人口规模,而国家范围则由国家实施的合约价值与境内总产品价值的比值来决定;国家分为法治国家与独裁国家两种类型,法治国家向独裁国家演变比较容易,但财产权、自由、民主等因素也会推动独裁国家向法治国家演进。巴泽尔的国家理论丰富了政治学研究的内容,但其个人主义的研究方法忽视了个人与组织的本质区别,他未对"权力"、"集体行动"等关键概念给予明确界定也为其理论留下了一定的逻辑缺陷。

Yoram Barzel built out a state model of the New Institutional Economics,using property theory.Yoram Barzel holds that the functions of the state is to ensure successful cooperation and exchange among social parties;the state's scale depends on the scale of population and territory;the scope of the state is determined by the proportion of state contract value to the total value of domestic products;the state's type,which may evolve between the state ruled by law and the one of dictatorship.His theory enriches the research of politics but has some logic defects as Barzel neglects the differences in the natures of individual and organization and fails to clearly define such important concepts as 'power'and'collective action'.