An Evolutionary Perspective of Policy Change behind the Economic Success of Taiwan

臺灣經濟成功背後的政策變遷進化觀點

Fu-Lai Tony Yu ； Bao-Tsuen Jeng ； Wen-Chuan Li

《國家發展研究》 4卷2期 (2005/06) Pp. 39-70

摘要

臺灣經濟發展中政府所扮演的角色記載得相當詳盡。本研究提供一個在台灣經濟成功背後，政府經濟管理的進化觀點。此觀點發展成為－「學習政府」模型，將臺灣政府描繪為在不確定情況下做決策的行動者。政府，就如同私人企業，以其經驗為基礎，建立形成其預期及計劃。在消化吸收新進來的事物後，政府決策者修訂計劃，並學以執行，接著試驗新的概念構想，最後結果則導致政策的變遷。進化觀點適用於了解自1950年以來臺灣政府的經濟管理。此論點更進一步主張，在多數廣泛的程度上，政府政策的產生是發展演變決定的。從進化理論了解政策變遷，提供了不同於傳統新古典公共經濟學家採取的成本效益分析的另一種觀點。

關鍵字

臺灣 ； 進化經濟學 ； 學習 ； 政府政策 ； 經濟發展

並列摘要

The role of the government in the economic development of Taiwan is well documented. This paper provides an evolutionary perspective on the economic management of the government behind the economic success of Taiwan. It develops a 'learning government' model which portrays the Taiwan government as an actor who makes decision under uncertainty. Public agents, like private enterprises, formulate expectations and plans based on their experiences. Assimilating new incoming events, decision makers in the public sector revise their plans, learn to implement projects, experiment new ideas, resulting in policy changes. This perspective is applied to understand the economic management of the Taiwan government since 1950. The upthrust of this argument is that the emergence of a government policy is, to a large extent, biographically determined. This evolutionary approach in understanding a policy change is an alternative to the cost and benefit analysis adopted by orthodox neo-classical public economists.

並列關鍵字

Taiwan ； evolutionary economics ； learning ； government policy ； economic development

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