论21世纪的自然资本与不平等——环境质量的收敛和经济增长

The Natural Capital and the Inequality in 21^(st) Century——the Convergence of Environmental Quality and Economic Growth

主要体现为生态环境质量的自然资本在现代生产中发挥着越来越重要的作用,以至于逐步进入到"资本"的概念体系中,局部地改变了传统意义上的资本内涵。自然资本的独特稀缺性决定了它的物质存量与价值规模存在背离,也就是在物理形态上,生态环境存量不断减少的同时,由于"市场化"程度的提高,其总货币价值却反而在不断增加,进而形成的结果是:自然资本总体上呈现出存量恶化(生态环境质量下滑),同时"资本收益率"却居高不下。这在资本与劳动持续分离的背景下,就使得处在自然资本体系内部的"资本方"和"劳动方"的收入和福利分配出现不均。本文对上述问题展开分析,并得出21世纪的自然资本将继续朝着"恶化"的方向收敛、资本方与劳动方之间的不平等程度将进一步加剧的基本结论。

The natural capital,containing the ecological and environmental quality,played more and more important role in modern production system. Traditional meaning of the capital was then changed partially after ＂natural capital＂was introduced. Mainly the unique features of natural capital brought the division of physical scale and the monetary value. More specificly,though the physical scale of eco-environmental quality declined,the value of it increased especially after the improvement of marketization. This resulted ironically that the return rate of natural capital will be higher while environmental quality was deteriorated. Moreover the distribution of wealth between capital and labor would be more unequal at least inside the natural capital system. Conclusively the inequality will be larger following the continuing eco-environmental degradation in 21 stCentury.