公平与效率的关系,被认为是经济学的难解之题,有人称之为经济学的哥德巴赫猜想。在社会主义市场经济条件下如何处理好这种关系,坚持效率优先的原则,为真正实现社会公平提供一条科学思路,是体制改革的重要课题。 1.牺牲效率的“公平”可行吗? 社会主义无疑是实现社会公平几个大字,鲜明地写在自己的旗帜上的。当资本主义以牺牲社会公平为代 The relationship between fairness and efficiency is regarded as a difficult problem of economics, which some call Goldbach’s conjecture in economics. Under the conditions of a socialist market economy, it is an important issue of institutional reform that how to handle this relationship well and adhere to the principle of giving priority to efficiency and provide a scientific way of thinking for truly realizing social fairness. 1. Is it feasible to sacrifice the “fairness” of efficiency? Socialism is undoubtedly a few words in its realization of social fairness and is clearly written on its own banner. When capitalism sacrifices social justice as the substitute