价格规制:缘由、目标和内容

Causality, target and content of price regulation

价格规制是经济规制的一种重要形式。在现代，自由市场经济已成为历史的陈迹。作为市场经济运行的利益焦点，价格必须接受“规制”。政府是价格规制的主体；价格规制的对象是市场活动参与者的价格行为；价格规制的依据是市场活动因垄断、外部性、信息偏在等对帕累托标准的偏离。价格规制不是对市场和市场机制的替代，而是在市场机制作用不充分的时候或地方，由政府为市场机制作用的发挥创造条件。

Price regulation is an important form of economic regulation. In modern society, free market economy has already turned to be a history. Being the interest focus of market economic performance, price must be regulated. The subject and object of price regulation are Government and the price behavior of market participators respectively in accordance with the deviation of market activities from Pareto - optimality due to monopoly, externality and asymmetric information etc. Price regulation is not the substitue for market and market mechanism and Government should create conditions, whenever and wherever, which the market mechanism fails to efeect.