Wednesday, December 21, 2005

年尾札記

年尾札記:

吳惠林先生引述經濟學家夏道平先生的話說「真正的經濟學家」應該具有的思路是:

一. 應了解「人」具有異於禽獸的意志、理念和邏輯思考;
二. 人的欲望滿足受外在種種限制,不得不有所選擇,但力求自由選擇;
三. 人在爭取自由過程中不能妨害別人的自由,在互動中形成分工合作;
四. 人類社會的形成和擴大,是由於人的自覺行為之互動,不是靠一個人或少數人的設 計、規畫、指揮或命令而組織成的所謂「團隊」行為;
五. 「非團隊」行為是分工合作社會所賴以達成、擴大的基礎,是「無形手」(指市場)的作用,是「長成的社會秩序」;
六. 有形手(指政府)不應牽制或阻礙「無形手」運作,只能為其去礙;
七. 自由市場和政府間的關係是後者對於前者的運作,只可維護或給予便利,不得有干擾。

2 comments:

HL said...

Free market cannot function perfectly in the real world, because market imperections are almost everywhere. There are many examples. Without government intervention, there would be almost no basic research, there would be no provisions of "public goods" (public education system, national defence, social infrastructure,.., etc.), there would be no penality against creating "external costs", and there would be no incentive for creating "external benefits" to society.

Big Eagle said...

Thanks to your comment. You are right that some intervention is needed. But what Mr. Hsia said is the intervention by government should based on democratic procedure and the purpose of intervention is to maintain the public interest and to suppport the need of public, such as research and regulation of implementation.