中国经济挑战制度经济学?

中国经过20几年的改革实践,GDP以年均超过9%的速度增长,但中国法治与产权保护还很欠缺,这似乎在一些方面挑战现存的制度经济学。制度经济学关注的核心是产权保护与合约执行机制。其实,中国经济在制度资本欠缺的情况下仍能增长的一个重要原因在于其增长所依赖的行业。这就是制造业和服务业的发展对制度环境有着截然不同的制度要求。中国改革实践不但没有挑战制度经济学的核心命题,反倒证实了制度经济学的指导意义。     

Toward an integration of economic and sociological approaches?

This article answers the question whether sociology of law and law and economics can be unificd into one integrated science. First, it is argued that an integration process inside law and economics has taken place, integrating most schools and partial analyses into one mainstream law and economics. Second, it is argued that there are no natural barriers against an integration of sociology and economics. Purely economic theories cannot and do not exist. What is calledeconomic analysis of law is basically a mixture of, for instance, 70 percent economics, 10 percent sociology, 10 percent psychology, and 10 percent other sciences. In addition, there is no such a thing as a purely sociological concept; concepts are sociological only in the sense that they are invented by people who call themselves sociologists.Nevertheless one should not expect that such a richer social science will lead to fundamentally different predictions and policy recommendations than those derived from the current simplistic economic analysis of law. The aspects studied by sociologists but assumed away by legal economists to date have in most cases no influence on the determination of (optimal) legal rules or on the long-run effects of legal rules.     

MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL: A LAW AND ECONOMICS DEFENSE OF SAME‐SEX FOSTER CARE ADOPTIONS

This article explores the methods by which homosexual partners can adopt children from foster care, primarily via the stepparent adoption method because most jurisdictions do not recognize same‐sex marriage or civil unions. In establishing that the children in foster care constitute a market not in equilibrium, I explore the significant barriers to entry that homosexual partners must overcome in order to adopt a child, including the biased rules of intestate succession, the inability of homosexuals to secure health insurance or other governmental subsidies for their nonbiological, adopted children, and the apparent misconception that homosexual parenting negatively affects the well‐being of the child. By deconstructing the barriers to entry in the foster care market for children, children will be afforded the opportunity to maximize their utility through permanency, and homosexual parents and the general public can maximize their utility through the reallocation of assets away from the foster care market, given that more children are likely to be adopted once homosexuals are granted unfettered adoption rights. The reallocation of assets away from the foster care market increases social efficiency, which is desired by all.     

侵权法的经济学理论：一个思想史的札记

"法律与经济学"理论运动在40多年的时间里成为当今美国主流法学流派之一,这在法律思想史上实属罕见。法律与经济学对法学和法律的冲击是全方位的,通过以"思想史的角度"对法律与经济学之"侵权法理论"展开讨论,重点表现在科斯的成本理论、卡拉布雷西的规则理论和波斯纳的侵权法经济分析理论。     

Why are the United States and the European Union failing to regulate the internet efficiently? Going beyond the bottom-up and top-down alternatives

This paper analyzes the different approaches for Internet regulation. We use the United States and European Union to illustrate the alternative approaches of self-regulation and government intervention. Our research suggests that both systems have serious shortcomings that could be ameliorated by the use of a mixed system for Internet regulation in which both the private and public sector have a role. The case study of privacy rights self regulation in the United States and its failure to effectively provide privacy regulation serves as our empirical evidence. We provide guidelines for both the government and the private sector in defining and enforcing privacy regulation. JEL Classification K33 · K2 · L51 · L86 · O57     

程序选择权及其法经济学思考

程序选择权是程序关系人的一项宪法性基本权利,本质上是一种诉权。在追求司法效率最大化的前提下,从法经济学的角度探讨程序选择权的法理,对于重新审思、检视、设计和评价整个民事程序法律制度以及相关的实务运作,具有重要的实践价值。     

法眼和钱眼：深化中国院校研究的两维视角

院校研究需要多学科介入。在高等学校不断推进依法治校和科学理财的过程中,迫切需要院校研究不断深化高校管理和运行中的法学和经济学研究,以提供有针对性、专业性的政策咨询。     

In search for rules that secure gains from cooperation: the heuristic value of social dilemmas for normative institutional economics

We ask how normative statements are possible within an economic theory framework that recognises the importance of institutional arrangements. Instead of applying established outcome-oriented criteria of social welfare, we examine whether the rules of economic interaction allow the acquisition of gains from cooperation. We suggest to reconstruct any interaction as an existing or repealed social dilemma. This approach helps to identify common rule interests which create room for improvement of all parties involved, and to suggest desirable institutional reforms. Our policy applications include the unemployment problem and rural credit markets.      

犯罪经济学视角下的女性职务犯罪

近年来,由于受商品经济影响和社会价值观念的冲击,女性职务犯罪呈不断上升趋势,从犯罪经济学角度分析原因主要有制约制度本身的缺陷,“大贪”的示范效应,一些女性“预期损失”没有得到充分的补偿等。     

法经济学在立法中的应用审视——主流的经济分析法学之批判

新古典经济学侧重的是私人领域,探究的是既定社会制度下的个体行为,它通过供求关系的分析来剖析现状产生的原因,不但具有强烈的建构性,而且也表现出为现状辩护的特点;相反,法律制度则属于公共领域的课题,它所规定的是人们的应得权利,要体现社会正义和人本关怀,从而本质上应该是演化的和关怀弱者利益的。正因如此,法律制度不应只是体现力量的较量和博弈,对它的分析也不能仅仅用基于供求的收益—成本范式,而是要遵循从本质到现象的分析路线;特别是,由于我国社会制度和市场机制依旧很不健全,还不存在私利和公益自然和谐一致的制度基础,因而简单地搬用相对成熟市场下解决私人领域的新古典经济学范式来探究市场很不完善下的社会制度问题,就不可避免地导致囚徒困境泛滥。因此,我们在应用新古典经济学分析范式来解释尤其是在完善或设计法律制度时就必须非常慎重。