从前现代增长到现代增长——政治发展与持续增长的制度基础

From the Pre-modern Growth to Modern Growth: Political Development and the Institutional Infrastructure of Sustainable Economic Growth

要实现持续稳定的经济增长,不仅需要考虑前现代制度背景下启动分工革命与维持现代增长的不同制度需求,还需要考虑两阶段增长制度的连续平稳过渡。因此,持续的经济增长需要匹配一个基本要素和内在逻辑一致的政治发展进程。一是通过制度化国家利维坦的发展来保障对制度租金的革命能力;二是通过法治的发展来防止权力机会主义;三是通过对外责任制的发展来维持改革的可信承诺。文章认为,政治制度围绕这三个方面的动态调整和互相协调构成了实现持续增长的制度基础。

There exist different institutional foundations between starting the revolution on the division of labor in pre-modern era and maintaining economic growth in modern conditions. To achieve sustainable and stable economic growth, institution building should not only separately consider its startups and evolution, but also the stable transition between them. Therefore, sustainable economic growth needs to match with continuous political development, bearing consistency in essential elements and inherent logic. Specifically, they are preserving capacity against institutional rents via institutionalized state, preventing power opportunism via rule of law, and maintaining credible commitment of reform via accountability.