腐败现象,从经济学的角度讲,其性质是一种寻租活动。“寻租”是指人类社会中追求非生产性经济利益的活动。寻租活动的危害主要有:权力的滥用和腐化;社会资源的巨大浪费;社会成员是非价值传统观和对政府合法性认同感的丧失。寻租从本质上说是权力寻租行为。在我国正处于向市场经济过渡的转轨时期,制度“真空”的存在是权力寻租的主要根源。因此,遏制寻租腐败源头的根本措施在于制度创新。 Corruption, from an economic point of view, is a rent-seeking activity in its nature. “Rent-seeking” refers to the activities of the pursuit of non-productive economic interests in human society. The main hazards of rent-seeking activities are: the abuse and corruption of power; the huge waste of social resources; the members of society are the non-value traditional view and the loss of the legitimacy of the government. Rent-seeking is essentially the power of rent-seeking behavior. In our country is in transition to a market economy transition period, the existence of the system “vacuum” is the main source of rent-seeking power. Therefore, the fundamental measure to curb the source of rent-seeking corruption lies in institutional innovation.