Images of the Market: Is Competitive De-regulation Inescapable?

去管制的完全競爭市場：勢在必行？

隨著冷戰的結束；人民不再受到核子武器的威脅，世界上主要的國家無須再致力於提升人民物質生活水準，而轉向致力使人民的機會極大化、國家活動私有化，並保持市場機制的正常運作。然而，值得探討的是：除了去管制化以外，國家是否沒有其他選擇？由於市場中的參與者過多，使得這些參與者間無法藉由溝通來實現他們的共同利益。這篇文章的目的在於提出，各國政府大可透過共同合作以實現全球社會的共同利益。

With the end of the cold war, governments of the leading countries, with their citizenries no longer exposed to the threat of nuclear war, were released from the duty to improve the material well-being of all of their citizens. Instead, states now aim to maximise opportunity for their people, to privatise state activities, and to make government more responsive to the market in its function. However, it is worth asking whether states really have no choice but to engage in competitive de-regulation. The argument that this is the case is premised on the view that, in a market composed of numerous players, the players are unable to co-ordinate their courses of action to realise their common interests. This paper argues that there is ample possibility for the governments to collaborate for the common interests of the global society.