作为享誉世界的著名经济学家,科斯不仅以其在新制度经济学、产权经济学、法与经济学等领域内所做的杰出贡献问鼎1991年诺贝尔经济学奖,而且长期关注中国的发展进程,除慷慨出资组织国际学术会议之外,更在其助手王宁协助下对中国自1949年以来,特别是1978年改革开放后的经济转轨和社会跃迁做了大量精细入微研究,其具体成果即是《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》一书——凝聚科斯晚年学术精义的集大成之作。科斯在书中理性、平实且不无欣赏地观照中国这60多年来所走过的路,可贵之处在于该书以历史主义视角为基础,辅之产权、契约、交易成本等新制度经济学几大关键概念作为分析工具和概念框架,针对中国市场经济改革提出一整套合理化解释。 As a world famous economist, Coase not only won the 1991 Nobel Prize in economics for his outstanding contributions in the field of new institutional economics, property economics, law and economics, but also paid much attention to China’s development Process, in addition to generously contributing to organize international academic conferences, with the help of his assistant Wang Ning, he has done a great deal of intensive study on China’s economic transition and social transition since 1949, especially after 1978’s reform and opening up. The concrete results The Book of “Reforming China: The Road to a Market Economy in China,” a book that sets the academic essence of Coase in his later years. Cooper’s book, which is rational, plain and not without appreciation, has taken China’s road for more than 60 years. What is commendable is that this book is based on the historical perspective and supplemented by new institutional economics such as property rights, contracts and transaction costs Several key concepts as analytical tools and conceptual framework for the Chinese market economy reform put forward a set of rationalized explanation.