晋商与政府结合的原因及其影响——关于传统官商关系的一个“合约”分析  

The Causation and Infection of the Relation between Shanxi Merchants and the Government——A Contract Analysis about the Traditional Relation of the Trader and Government

作　　者：王志东[1] 燕红忠[1] 

机构地区：[1]山西大学晋商学研究所

出　　处：《浙江社会科学》2010年第7期22-29,共8页Zhejiang Social Sciences

基　　金：山西省软科学研究项目"晋商与现代经济"(2010041085-04)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：在传统社会商人与政府及其代理人官吏之间存在着严重的不平等关系,但他们之间的经济行为仍然具有明显的契约性质,文章主要利用现代经济学中的合约理论对晋商与政府结合的原因和影响进行了探讨。研究表明,晋商正是利用同封建政府及其官吏之间的"合约"锁定关系,节约了交易成本,规避了诸多市场风险,在明清商界盛极一时。然而,在晋商发展的后期,随着产权结构的变化、交易成本和各种风险的递增,官商之间特殊的合约锁定关系则成为晋商走向衰落的主要推动因素。There is a severe inequality between merchants and the government as well as its representative officials in traditional society,but their economic behavior highlighted obvious lease characteristic. The author will explore the reasons and influences of the coalition of businessmen and authorities from the perspective of contract theory in modern economics. It shows that Jin merchants saved considerable exchanging cost,effectively avoided countless market risks hence renowned during Ming and Qing dynasties mainly because they were in a locked and established coalition with government officials. With the changing of property right structure along with the hiking of trading cost and sorts of risks,however,the key to their success pulled them to the death on their later stage of development.

关 键 词：晋商 官商结合 合约分析 

分 类 号：K29[历史地理—历史学]