农业制度变迁与诺思界定产权的"国家理论"

1949-1978年间,我国农业政策的演变过程证明,诺思的国家理论对社会主义制度下的政府行为也有很强的解释力。政府的经济人行为不受社会制度的约束,社会主义国家的政府也会为了自身的眼前利益不断改变经济交易的规则,从而使这些规则完全失去激励,使经济增长处于长期的停滞状态。我国政府还具有强大的设计制度结构的功能:从工业化发展目标出发,改变土地产权结构,并创造出相应的组织、政策及意识形态。政府的这一功能已经超出了诺思国家理论框架的涵盖范围。

Vicissitudes of Agricultural System and North's "State Theory" Defining Property Right

The development of China's agricultural policies from 1949 to 1978 indicates that North's state theory has its constructional power to analyze the features of our socialist central government leadership.In other words,if the government's rational economist action is not restricted by social institutions,the socialist government can also lead economy into a stagnation. For no matter what social institution it is,the government can change the economic rules whenever it needs and loses the stimulating mechanism vital to the economic development of those rules.The history of the development of China's agricultural policies also shows that the government has a mighty power to design an institutional framework to change the structure of land property right,to create corresponding organizational forms and policies,and ideology in order to reach the goal of industrialization.This function of the socialist government has already gone beyond what is contained in North's state theory.