政府或国家的基本职能在于“缓和(各种对立面的)冲突,把冲突保持在‘秩序’的范围之内”。关于政府职能和经济秩序关系的这种认识,应该说早已没有什么疑问了。但大量的各国实践和理论研究表明,这种认识是过于简单了。它没有解释政府作为一个合法使用强制力的垄断者,如何调整其职能大小和作用范围,来影响一国经济秩序运行的动力和效率。事实上,政府有权“决定什么样的制度(基础)将存在”,这就使政府不免要对它所选定的产权结构、伦理取向,以及由此造成的经济增大、停滞或衰退负责。一句话,政府要对一国经济 The basic function of the government or state is to “ease (all kinds of opposite) conflicts and keep the conflicts within the scope of” order. “ This understanding of the relationship between the functions of the government and the economic order should be said that there has long been no doubt about it. However, a large number of national practice and theoretical studies show that this understanding is too simple. It does not explain how the government, as a monopolist who legally uses coercion, adjusts the size and scope of its functions to influence the dynamics and efficiency of the operation of a country's economic order. In fact, the government has the power to ”decide what kind of system (foundation) will exist," which will inevitably lead the government to be responsible for its chosen structure of property rights, its ethical orientation, and the resulting economic growth, stagnation or decline. . In a word, the government wants to be economical for one country