巴泽尔的产权理论评介

A Review of Barzel's Theory of Property Rights

巴泽尔的产权理论观点新颖、方法独特，丰富了已有的产权理论和新制度经济学。他在产权界定方式、界定费用的影响、个人在产权界定中的作用以及产权合理配置原则等多方面提出了与众不同的见解。从辩证逻辑的角度揭示了产权界定的相对性和渐进性。指出由于存在交易费用，产权实际上常常不可能界定清晰，未加界定的财产价值就被留在公共领域；产权边界是个人努力、他人争夺和政府维护的函数，个人在产权界定中比政府有优势。他还从共同财产问题和延留义务的角度揭示了企业的性质。

The original and methodologically unique theory of property rights advocated by Y. Barzel has enriched the theories of property rights and neo-systematic economics. Barzel has proposed distinctive views in terms of the forms of property rights identification, effects of identification costs, the role of the individual in property rights identification and the principle of reasonable property rights distribution. He unveils the relativity and gradual nature of property rights identification using dialectical logic, pointing out that with the existence of transaction costs, property rights often cannot be clearly identified, and the unidentified property values will remain in public domains. The boundary of property rights is the function of individual effort, competition and government protection, where the individual has greater precedence over the government. He also reveals the nature of enterprises from the perspectives of common property and delaying obligations.