政府干预、经济自由与企业家精神

一般认为,政府干预对企业家精神是不利的。然而这个判断是否符合我国这样处于经济转型阶段的、由地方政府推动经济增长的国家?我们使用2000年中国大陆除西藏外30个省市的截面数据,运用SEM方法,考察政府干预、经济自由与企业家精神之间的关系,结果发现,政府干预虽然直接推动了企业家精神的增长,但阻碍了经济自由,最终阻碍了企业家精神的成长。因此,地方政府热衷于通过经济干预来培育企业家精神或许是错误的。要发展企业家精神,就必须减少政府干预,实现经济自由。

Government Intervention, Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship

It is a common belief that government intervention has negative effect on entrepreneur-ship. Yet, whether it applies to our transforming economy, the increase of which depends on the local governments, deserves discussion. This analysis is based on the cross-sectional data of all the mainland provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government (except Tibet) in 2000. U-sing SEM,We check up the relations among government intervention,economic freedom and entrepre-neurship, only to find that the government intervention has an immediate positive influence on entre-preneurship,but prevents economic freedom, hence a negative influence on entrepreneurship in the long run. Therefore we feel safe to conclude that it is bad for local governments to intervene to promote entrepreneurship, which virtually depends on less intervention and more economic freedom.