前不久世界银行首席经济学家斯蒂格利兹所著的一本书《政府为什么干预经济》中文版出版,成为一本经济类畅销书。全书的宗旨在于强调依托供求关系为基础的纯粹市场经济制度并不会自发出现,在经济运行过程中恰恰是“市场失灵”现象比比皆是,而发挥政府这支“看得见的手”去调节经济运行才有可能创造一个比较成熟的市场制度。 Not long ago, a book by the chief economist of the World Bank, Stiglitz, was published in the Chinese edition of Why the Government Intervened in the Economy and became a bestseller in economics. The book’s aim is to emphasize that the purely market economy based on supply and demand will not spontaneously emerge. It is precisely in the process of economic operation that phenomena of “market failure” are commonplace and that the “visible” Hand "to adjust the economic operation is possible to create a more mature market system.